Good Essay On Travels With My Ex

Susan Straight is driving out with his ex-husband who they have been separated for twelve years. Although they are still in good terms, they cannot swallow their pride and live together again. The two lived at Inland Empire where there are several other separated couples just like them maybe because they cannot afford live separately. The ex-couple have known each other for a long time. Susan mentions of their history back in high school when she remembers seeing her ex-husband stepping on the gas pedal. She notices the usual boots that he used to wear because of his correctional officer job although Susan also recalls that he never liked sandals.
Although Susan claims depict that the travel exists because Baller is celebrating her eighteenth birthday down in the Beach, the ex-couple has more in connection other than this. The journey is drawing them nearer to each other possibly pulling memoirs that may not be healthy for people in a past relationship particularly married like Susan and the ex-husband. The idea to travel in two vans with their three children (the Scholar, the Baller, and the Baby) together with Baller’s teammate and boyfriend while the ex-couple drove in a separate car is a get-together effort for the two.
The duo knows each other so well which is evident in the scenario where the kids van is flagged down by a California highway patrol depicts the extent and history of the two regarding personality. Susan portrays his ex-husband as a hyper. He cannot withstand for long the police officer messing up with their daughter. It is a family reunion, the caring, and concern of the parents is still evident although the two have been apart for twelve years; Susan still fights non-verbally with the ex-husband competing for the kids’ attention.
The aspect of race challenges in the country features as Susan highlights briefly in the excerpt when the police officer pulls over the kids' van and the first thing that comes to Susan's mind is what is likely to happen when a van full of black kids in California is flagged down by police. Riverside is the family's hometown; this is after the patrol police checking the car's plate, there are some questions that the kids have to answer on their own to settle it out with the officer before their dad grows impatient thinking the officer is messing up with the kids. The other police officer, a partner of the one approaching the van, seems to be of much less concern and of disinterest of what is going on at the scene, rubbing the barrel of his shotgun against Feets' skull; tension on kids on what their fun day may turn out.
Susan's travel experience is, however, common to many other fun days for families out, for instance, last December holidays in a similar scenario visiting with my family in two cars, one with the teenagers from the countryside to enjoy the beach view across the town has similar experiences of police patrol pulling over. The Mother Tongue article by Amy Tan as well is on a basis of family reunion and seeking to discover their true identity although blinded by their pride and laziness to let go of their differences as they do not accept the fact that they have a permanent liking for each other. Relationships are more than mental conception and understanding which are a foundation of a family. It is not as easy to decide and forget the history of existing affection especially when kids act as a connection between a couple as in the case of Susan and the ex-husband. Concisely, the case discussed above is just but an example of many other separated or divorced parents whose memoirs and their vision for their family bring them together irrespective of their differences.