Child has been taught from the beginning that the family is sacred, and is the most important thing in the life of every person. Family can give what no one else can give: love, protection, and it shapes a person’s identity from the birth. Very often parents are judged by the way their child behaves, however there is a huge number of disordered families. Lack of a parent or unstopping abuse and arguments can cause a child’s personality to change, in most cases, in a bad way. Children like that are unsocial, lonely, misbehaved and sometimes are full of hatred towards themselves. So does the character from the novels, Lives of the Saints and In a Glass House, written by Nino Ricci. These two extraordinary novels are told by the boy, Vottorio Innocente, about his life in Italy and his life as an immigrant in Canada. His life completely changed once he was brought to Canada. His mother died while giving birth to his half-sister, his father was too busy, working on the farm, to take care of both children. Atmosphere in Innocente’s family, desire to escape from his present life through travel and acceptance are factors that affected Vittorio’s perspective on life as well as they had shaped his personality.
             Family atmosphere plays a certain role in the development of the young individual. Each member of a family should have a responsibility, father should discipline and protect the family, and mother should love and take care of it. Unfortunately, in the novel Lives of the Saints, father of young Vittorio left Italy to work in America, and Vittorio was left with mother and his crippled grandfather. It was a stable family with its daily problems and routines. Vittorio was loved protected and was taken care of, actually he was overprotected, given too much attention, so he got spoiled. “Growing up like a weed. Do you ever see him getting up at four to help with the harvest? He and his mother pl...