Paul Wilkes Memoir

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Paul Wilkes memoir, a love story and a struggle with love, in this situation, God. His life remind me of a yo-yo, he started out slow, then moves fast with struggles in the extreme and he finally began to balance himself out with consistency. Paul’s life the basic heart of a religion, you go to church, you pray and learn the most important concepts of the religion. Paul Wilkes's search for God begins in a poor, working class family in Cleveland and winds through lonely nights in a factory, working his way through college; a surprising confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis; a torrid romance on the Indian Ocean; acceptance into an Ivy League school; and into the "perfect" marriage, that failed.

The seventh Child of a large family and had many undermining ways of a typical little boy who didn’t understand certain things in life. As Wilkes dwells through a life that begins in a working-class Cleveland neighborhood, he relates his passages of sin and saintliness to people in the world or to other children. He really did not understand the reason behind all of the duties in the church, confession and praying. According to Wilkes as a boy, one night he decided to urinate in the house vent because he supposedly was to tired and afraid to go back downstairs through the dark to use the bathroom. He knew that it was a sinful thing to do, but he did it anyway. He paid for the sin that he did when the wintertime came and the heat had to be turn on.

Wilkes skipped out on many of his duties at the church because he did not want to participate in it due to him feeling as though it took up to much time. Unlike any other boy, paul knew it was sinful to think of a women in a sexual manner and in order for him to still th...

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...ss, shoes, ankles, and form to match it with the same desired uniqueness of the woman on the transit. Through his life when viewing a women he would literally take a women apart like a puzzle and examine every part of the women in the same sequence as he started at a younger age.

Overall Wilkes battle in life was with reasoning and truth. His battle remind me of Galations (6:9) when it says “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Many go through pain and agony, but when your back is against the we all do not give up because there is a good thing in the end. Paul lived a life of a child and did as the normal child would expect in life, venturing into the unknown and finding reasons for each action taken.

Works Cited

Galations 6:9, King James version Bible

Paul Wilkes, “In Due Season; A Catholic Life” 2009

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