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What are parents main goal in life for their child? It’s not to beat them or make them hate their childhood for the rest of their life, but to allow them to feel accomplished at what they do and feel proud of all the things that they have done. Though at sometimes a parents good intent may be masked by the rules that they have put in place to help you they are truly trying to make you the better person. Now if a parent has never pushed you to strive to be amazing in life at what you choose to do than they are just handing you an easy childhood with a harsh and hard adulthood in the future. If you never work for what you want you will always expect in life to have everything handed to you, but in the present day times that is not how it works at all. Therefore, in the text The Writer the father initially wants an easy passage in life for his daughter but then realizes the struggles he would be setting her up for and is explained further in three messages. First and foremost, writers block can happen to any writer and no one can avoid it as conveyed in The Writer. That father in the ...

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