Outside Reading #1

I am currently reading Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult. I chose to read it because I absolutely love her books, and I hadn't read it yet. Harvesting the Heart is about a girl whose mother ran away at age five. When she grows up and becomes a mother herself, she feels she is no good at being a parent and leaves just like her mother did. She leaves her husband, who is a surgon so he is always at work, and her three month old baby at home. When she leaves, she goes out to find her mother. The novel explores the ideas of why her mother left her and how things like this have an long term effect.
"I had expected more from you. The words brought back the image of his father, standing over him like an impenetratable basilisk and holding out a prep school physics exam bearing the only grade lower than an A that Nicholas had recived in his whole life" (Picoult 270). I chose this quote because I think it shows the power of an adult figure, like a parent's, influence and opinion. As much as people want to say that they aren't influenced by what other people say, I think that deep down they care about what their parents say. Also, I think that the idea of falling below what your parents expect from you is also something that alot of people don't like the idea of.