The Fragility of Crystal is not a Weakness but a Fineness

Dion Eprijum Ginanto

“The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness". Parents understood that fine crystal glass had to be cared for or may be shattered. But when it came to you, they didn't seem to know or care that their course of their secret action brought the kind of devastation that could cut them. Their fraudulent marriage was for you a murder of every day's truth. You felt your whole life turned like a river suddenly reversing the direction of its flow. Suddenly running uphill. These revelations struck at the core of your sense of identity. They made your entire childhood seem like fiction. Chris never told them he knew and made me promise silence as well.” (Chris McCandles)

From "Into the Wild" Novel by Jon Krakauer

Some parents may think that what they did are for their kids. They work so hard; they go to work from morning until late at night. They argue that they make money for their kids’ future. However, parents sometimes forget that what kids need are not money, wealthy, nor fame. What children need are simply love, sincerely and truth.

Some parents sometimes also failed to know the importance of parenting in the life of their children. Some parents are too busy to know how good their kids are at home or school. Some parents are also sometimes too demanding to their kids without really give them deep attention. They always ask children responsibility without fulfill the kids’ right to get parent’s love and care. Some parents always force children to tell to truth but they in the same times, always hide the truth from their kids. Some parents advised their kids to respect them but they sometimes forget to listen to the problems of their kids, or simply hug them. These are what Chris feels to his parents. He felt that his own parents had broken down his crystal’s heart. 

Chris McCandles in the novel was so disappointed to his father after he unearthed the truth that when his father married his mom, his father was actually still married to his firs wife. Chris cannot forgive the mistakes his father had made as a young man. He was even less willing to pardon the attempt at concealment his mother did. He declared to Carrine and others that the deception committed by Walt and Billy made his “entirely childhood seem like fiction”. But he did not confront his parents with what he knew then or ever. Then this is the reason why Chris decided to risk himself into the wild.

I put myself in the middle of what Alex think of his parents. I agree and disagree with Alex for some reasons. I agree with Alex’s idea that all parents should give love, truth and sincerity to their kids rather than giving fame, money or wealthy. I disagree with Alex that that he will not pardon his parents mistake. The reason is that I think no body is perfect. Also, I believe that instead of risking himself into the wild in Alaska to seek the truth of life; it is better for Alex to communicate with his parents. Why do not Alex try to be braver to gently  ask why his parents did not tell the truth about the duplicity to him.