Wicked Lovely post 2B

In the portion that I've read from the book, many themes and ideas were pointed out.
The relationship between mother and son, the difficulty of being different, even the attraction between two genders were all, whether slightly or constantly, mentioned thus far.

A family. The image that people usually get from this word is happy, harmony, caring, etc. However, there were many cases, in real life, that family relationships turned out not that beautiful.
When kids are young and innocent, they don't really--let's put it this way--have a mind. They are, however, capable of seperating what they like and dislike. Even that, they still don't really have their opinion on things, so when their parents tell them to do something, they would listen and follow the command.
As the children are growing up, they make more contact with the outside world and ideas, eventually, begin to have their own beliefs and opinions. Parents aren't very use to that, and they would use the same way that they treat their children before to treat them now. SOme of the parents can get accostom to the situation and the change very well and soon while some can't. So when the children start to 'strive' for their rights and beliefs, some parents just simply couldn't stand it. However, no matter how things get, there is always some kind of connections and bonds between the parents and the children, and this type of connection is strong enough, although can get weak sometimes, to face everything.
But besides that, as in Wicked Lovely, there are family relationships that are just...abnormal.
Keenen, the Summer King, has a very arrogant mother, the Winter Queen, with a lust for power. She basically treat Keenen as a tool, using him to find maids and even seek to find the 'perfect bride' for him, as a way to control him of course. And, in my opinion, this is absolutely cruel and unbelievable.
::sigh::
...Life is weird.