Despite the fact that Alberto Moravia’s Agostino’s text and plot are more emotional, I believe that the intent behind the novel is to emphasize the importance of motherhood to the development of the child, child sexuality, and the importance of education. Agostino and his mother go out every day rowing a boat called Patino, and Agostino’s introduction to this book is the first thing the reader encounters. My understanding of it was that it was meant to emphasize how stable Agostino’s life was under the specific regime that he lived under. Agostino is described by the author as experiencing a fit of inner jealousy in relation to the foreigner’s approach to his mother, which resulted in a sort of resistance towards the foreigner at the beginning of the novel. I think he may be more hostile to this outsider due to the fact he loves his mother too much, which to me might sound a bit sick and since the feelings Agostino has for his mother are purely expressed through love, Agostino also hopes to be noticed by my mother as well. He joins the lower gang for a variety of reasons, one of which is the fact that his mother cannot get used to becoming distracted by other people. Children are more likely to become dependent on their parents if they are living in a single-parent household because of insecurities. As a result, children become more afraid of losing and begin to make more extreme choices as a result. Although I was impressed by the story of Agostino and the lower-class children in the book, and I thought his way of doing things was ingenious, there was also an uneasy feeling in reading the book. Teenagers’ education is very important, it is the time when kids are growing into an adult and this is the time period that they are curious about everything. It is also the period when the three views were formed that also forms the view of sex, etc.

There are a few questions that I think I will think about after I finish reading this book. Even if they do not belong to a single-parent family, Agostino’s eye-catching behaviors are the same as giving siblings to a child who is the only child in the family. They will also attract attention. How can we deal with such a situation so that we can get the best result?