Sanders

First and foremost, I would just like to say that it seems as if this guy has had a really shitty life. He grew up in a neighborhood of Jesus freaks and alcoholics next to a war zone and this ends up forcing him to become a work-a-holic. I can't personally relate to his childhood but I know that my grandfather was an alcoholic and this makes me think about what my mom might have thought about as a child. He was a functioning alcoholic but my mom is very similar to Sanders in many ways. We never talk about his past addiction, she rarely drinks, and she is one of the most obsessive compulsive work horses I've ever seen. I think that his essay isn't self-absorbed in any way because it is about his traumatic relationship with his father and he is writing as a way to help alleviate some of his pain. His use of slang is heavy without being obnoxious but its written in a very serious way. Its not written in a manor that is asking the reader to take pity on him and feel bad, but rather, in an informative way. Hes telling the reader that this is something that is a serious problem and has consequences on the family and friends of those related to the alcoholic. Its true that alcoholism is treated as a joke in many ways in our country and its media but this has to be a slap in the face to people like Sanders.

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