One of the books that played a big role in my childhood was My Side of the Mountain by Jean George, in the classic wilderness survival genre fantasizing about a kid running away from home to live in the woods But one thing that sticks out to me is how dependent on books he was
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Hmm, that is true. But that's ultimately resolved in a fairly healthy way; the son does not triumph over the father in some Freudian way, but reverses his own father's paternal struggle and comes to a happy accord.
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It's his mom who shuts down his dad at the end "Well, I'm not a Gribley, I'm a Stuart, and the Stuarts have always loved the land" Implying he takes after his mom and never knew it
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It's his mom who drives the decision to live there with him because she loves it as much as he did - "I felt her feet squeeze into the dirt and take root"
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