Tripp Lake

"I could not have said it then, what i have since felt my whole life, that separation is a sword, painful to be avoided at all cost." This a quote from the essay Tripp Lake. In a way, I feel she was happy to be leaving her mother. Painful, because she knew it would hurt her parents relationship but, happy, because she was getting away. She finally realized that she would actually be on her own making some decisions by herself and her parents would not be drilling her. But most of all, she was probably happy she did not have to hear them argue and see them fall out of love with each other. I feel she lost respect for them, in a way. Not only respect, but also, she became more distant. Her family just changed in a sense of falling apart. She loved her mother to death but, lost respect for her and through this she took it out on herself and became a loner. I believe, she started to pity herself because she did not have the life she wanted back st home. When she was at camp she was away from all of this and the only thing that kept home off of her mind were the horses.