贯穿这几章内容，Christ讲述各种事情，总会提到他母亲对他的教育以及影响。生长在那样的家庭环境里，继父如此残暴，他愿望就是让她的母亲高兴，为他自豪。“ Really did she express impatience or frustration with me even when I deserve it. But the couple of instances when she did ，in her inmitable style of brutal understatement, she made her point better than with any ass whupping.”
" In her way, mom showed me how powerful both words and silence can be."
In her own way to me and my sister, she was our professor ,our Socrates(苏格拉底).
“ It had to make her happy to see that she was getting through to us,seeing me responded to her repeated insistence that without the ability to read and write I would be nothing more than a slave.”真是位了不起的母亲。母亲对孩子的影响如此之大，看来我自己要反思自己了。
语言积累:
budding interest: 刚刚开始的兴趣
voracious appetite for books:对书的饥渴
fiasco&debacle:大败，惨败，崩溃
I couldn't mask smile stretching across my face because this was going to be my day to shine.
mask:掩盖，掩饰，隐瞒
