Memoir of Paul Wilkes, a story of love and a struggle with love, in this situation, God. His life reminds me of a yo-yo, he started slowly, then he moves fast with extreme struggles and he finally started to balance with consistency. Paul's life is the fundamental heart of a religion, you go to church, you pray and learn the most important concepts of religion. Paul Wilkes' search for God begins in a poor, working-class Cleveland family and continues through lonely nights in a factory while pursuing a college education. a surprising confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis; a steamy romance on the Indian Ocean; acceptance to an Ivy League school; and in the “perfect” marriage it failed. The seventh child in a large family and had many ways to undermine a typical little boy who didn't understand certain things in life. As Wilkes looks back on a life that began in a working-class neighborhood in Cleveland, he recounts his passages of sin and holiness to worldly people or to other children. He really did not understand the reason for all the duties of church, confession and prayer. According to Wilkes, when he was a child, one night he decided to urinate into the air vent of the house because he was supposedly too tired and afraid to go back downstairs in the dark to use the bathroom. He knew it was a sin, but he did it anyway. He paid for the sin he committed when winter came and he had to turn on the heat. Wilkes skipped many of his church duties because he didn't want to participate because he felt like it was time consuming. too much time. Unlike any other boy, Paul knew it was a sin to think of a woman in a sexual way and so he could calm down middle of paper......butt, shoes, ankles and shape . to associate it with the same desired uniqueness of the woman in transit. Throughout his life, when he looked at a woman, he would literally take a woman apart like a puzzle and examine each part of the woman in the same order he had started at a younger age. Overall, Wilkes' battle in life was one of reasoning and truth. His battle reminds me of Galatians (6:9) when it says, “And let us not be weary of doing good; for we will reap in due season, if we do not grow weary. » Many go through pain and agony, but when our backs are against us, we all don't give up because there is a good thing in the end. Paul lived the life of a child and did what a normal child would expect in life, venturing into the unknown and finding reasons for every action taken. A Catholic life” 2009