It doesn’t take that long in a debate room to narrow down that one of the most difficult discussions to hold with a crowd is one centered on how to raise a child. It becomes even more of a challenge to hold such a discussion once the question of what can be considered child abuse is asked. That is because there are those who cannot fathom the idea of someone being cruel to their children, those ignorant of such an act, and those to which do not understand it on the premise that they had unknowingly endured it; and a variety of other reasons for their disagreement with the other sides. The dictionary can put an explanation to it and websites can express their own signs of child abuse, but it all comes down to the perspective of the person opening their mouth to comment or call attention to it. However, no matter the …show more content…
Dave’s feigned Italian persona in Breaking Away is his own version of that filth. This is an assumption based on the harsh, degrading commentary towards his Italian persona made by his father. But while Cinderella’s filth was caused by the loss of her parents and the uptake of her cruel stepmother, Dave has no such visible reason for his uptake of the persona. However, that does not mean he is not his own version of Cinderella. Throughout Breaking Away, Dave’s relationship with his father is portrayed as strained and negligent. Through both Jacqueline Schectman’s article, ““Cinderella” and the Loss of Father-Love,” and Maria Tatar’s article, “An Introduction to Fairy Tales”, their father-son relationship and Dave’s Italian persona can be reevaluated to make sense of the connection between his father’s ill treatment towards him and his newly acquired personality that is overlooked in the film. A connection that reveals that there is a potential causation between his lack of fatherly love and his acquired persona, all tied together with the need to seek comfort in a figure. Even if that figure must be