Lisa Fraziers The Pact :: Lisa Frazier The Pact

Lisa Fraziers The Pact My fathers family lived in New Jersey when my dad and his tercet brformer(a)s were just blooming adolescents. Their parents were the product of the cocktail generation, and the Irish tendency towards alcoholism was augment by that social niche. Despite the arguments and drinking, Mary and Jack wanted to disembowel sure their children got the best possible learning. The boys were sent to Catholic schools, and once they calibrated were forcefully directed down a collegiate path. The brothers gave each(prenominal) other support throughout the years, but what they did with that support behind them was up to each individual. All four of the brothers went on to higher(prenominal) education, but their choices there and the lives theyd rails thereafter were all rather different. The doctors in the Pact, a book close close friends using a promise to unite the and motivate eachother to succeed, grew up where my father and his brothers did, but in a very different time. often like my fathers family, they were to face their own individual obstacles and make their way to higher education and their lives beyond. Both had parents with little money and received the best education that could be provided, and both would face elements in their lives that could change it. Before win comparison the lives of Tom, Bill, Pat, and Tim should be discussed. My father, Tom, was the eldest brother and was the first to attend college. He had been an alter boy in high school and a football game player. When it came time for him to attend college he chose Millersville University . There he played football and was well known as a student who knew how to throw a party. Two years into his college career he decided to go into the navy. aft(prenominal) serving his time there he went back to Millersville only to usher out out near the beginning of his senior year because he run aground college to be boring. To my father there is nothing worse than world bored. His biggest accomplishment in college, as far as he power saw it, was when trying to write an original poem in a genuine style on one of his English finals, he wrote a limerick kinda which went as follows