Over and over, I kept thinking I’ve got to go home and then, for the millionth time, I can’t.
It must be so hard to be a young kid and be so intelligent and gifted but still young in maturity and parental attachment. Theo has an idea of home — his apartment, his mother, his routines — that are now completely uprooted and will never be the same. On top of it all, he is in an unfamiliar home where routines and norms are different. On top of that, too, he has the burden of being a guest and not wanting to be imposing on the Barbours. It’s a lot to cope with all at once for a little boy.
