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From The Road from Coorain

From “The Road from Coorian” by Jill Ker Conway 

“One troublesome aspect of the frustration of my parents’ dreams was the extent to which they transferred their ambitions to their children.” 

Word count: 315

This quote has stood out to me in the chapter because I cannot imagine the stress of having so much pressure on yourself to do so well as a child. The children in this family seemed to be under immense stress all the time to do well in school; if they did not follow their orders, there would be immediate punishment. I think there was also a lot of stress on the writer because she expresses her father’s feelings about how it is her responsibility to take care of her mother or her father if anything happens to them because he does not think that her brothers have the capability to do so. I feel like she felt a lot of pressure to be the perfect child as a lot of her parents’ aspirations for achievement were put on her. Also, a lot of this pressure could be holding her back from things that she wants to do, and she mentioned if she ever thinks she will get away from Coorian. The approval of her parents was very important to her which I think is part of the reason that she was also stressing all the time to be a perfectionist and fear of her parents’ disappointment. After her the death of her parents the author seemed to still want to prosper in the legacy that her father wanted her to live which encouraged her to be able to deal with further disasters that might come her way. Even though her parents were very strict with her being the perfect child and giving her so many responsibilities, I believe it made her more substantial in the end. 


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