Beautiful Boy

Due October 28th (computer not working)

This story that I'm about halfway through with is told by a father with a son named Nic, who is, or is going to be a drug addict. This story starts with an forward with an overview about how the father feels about this whole situation, and how this happened. It starts out with his boy being born. He an his wife had gotten divorced when Nic was about 5. He starts to go on the airplane by himslef at the age of 6, and has more frequent flyers miles when he's at the age of 8, flying to Atlanat to see his mom, than a normal adult would ever have. IN his childhood Nic was an unusually irregular  child in the aspects of his mental capacity. He thought unlike any other 7 year old, and knew more things that normal 7 year olds would do. He was different from everybody else.

In the story, Nic's dad (the narrator) thinks that the divorce and moving around so much an feeling like you don't have a permanent home, may have caused Nic to start using. The stress of never being in the same place at once might've put too much on him that he went on to doing drugs. Or that it might be genetic because he as a kid had troubles using. But I think it's not anybody fault but the persons, and maybe not even their fault that they started using drugs. When you use drugs, you become another person. Drugs make you do things that you would never imagine that you would ever do if you were sober. It's the only fault of the person who chose to try drugs and let the drugs take over him. I think that the choices you make early in life about drugs and alcohol make a bigger difference than the choices you make when you are older, because you have already been immune to using, and at that point, you probably will never stop.