It is commonly known that a child's behavior is modeled by their surroundings. This is shown most strongly in three incidents. The first being that his mother, hiding from Bobby his high intelligence quotient, causes him to think he is in trouble. Secondly, by his mother living so close to the ideal Catholic family, tries to keep him away from trials and troubles of everyday life. Most importantly, Agnes and Teddy have an atypical relationship in a sense of having a loving secure correlation of love. Therefore, taking away from the normality of his childhood. The purpose of this essay is to show that Bobby O'Malley's childhood is tainted with a distorted opinion of normal behavior.
Bobby O'Malley is a excessively academic student who is punished for not being the most worshipful in school. Bobby has a hard time in school emotionally because his intellectual wealth is so much stronger than that of his immediate student body. His mother wants him to be a priest, and the sisters at his school are giving him harsh reports of "virtue"(71) when they should be praising him on his ability to learn . This is hard as he endured an intelligence quotient test and had extraordinarily high marks. When he gets home after his unbelievably long parent teacher interview, he over hears his mother talking about how they had a son with a very high .
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Intelligence Quotient. This is proven when Agnus is discussing the incident when Bobby overhears "Bobby's IQ is a little high. . . . My father sighed, long and loud, it was a "disease incurable, death imminent' kind of sigh"(34) He also hears that his parents are going to "just treat him the same, maybe try to make things more interesting for him" Bobby, not knowing what intelligence quotient meant, he thought he was dying. This shows that Bobby is mislead by his unknowing mother into believing his gut instinct more than what his teachers and parents tell him.
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