Scared To Proud, Boy To Man

Scared To Proud, Boy To Man

        I just read A Jew Grows In Greenwich by George Tabb.  It's a life memoir of George Tabb's.  In it, he is a protagonist.  George had a very rough childhood, and it really messed him up.  His parents went through a rough divorce when he was very young, and his dad moved to Greenwich with George and his two brothers, Luke and Sam.  George, being the oldest.  Lester, their father, beat them almost every day for stupid reasons.  They hate their step mother Cybil, who also joins in on the beatings.

        Through his whole childhood, the conflict made him a scared and uncomfortable person.  But it didn't stop his confidence for that long.  This is how he changed.  He decided that the only way to get out of his uncomfortable position in life was to take it like a man, and make the best of it.  To be stronger than what pulled him down.  That's really hard to do for me.  It takes a lot of confidence to face a position as horrible as the one that he was in.

        The last few the lines of the book displayed his reverting to his confident old self.  He shot his father with a pellet gun in the back of the neck, and his father never knew that that was what happened.  

He always thought that a bee or a wasp stung him, but what he should have known, is that his son triumphed against the one thing that forced him down, and changed his life forever.

        It must have been hard living with someone so close to you, who hated you, and made your life crap.  Parents aren't meant to be like that.  Parents are supposed to give you advice and guide you through life.  Lester was just a selfish jerk who wanted nothing but a giant home, sex, and his several million dollars.  And almost everything but his three lovely kids.