This Boy's Life Family Quotes

Mom's trying to make Jack a Catholic. Maybe that's her way of finding a "real" family for him: someone to give him values and make him feel good, even yell at him when he messes up. All things that she should do, but for whatever reason is unable to. Nuns = replacement moms?

Jack's imagining a fantasy that can never exist: the idea that someone else would be perfect as a family, and not have problems like his family does.

From the fantasy, we go to reality: Roy's dysfunctional family unit. Mom's gotta do what he says or there will be trouble… geez, no wonder Jack takes off into Imagination Land.