ay like schoolchildren all day.” (Lives of the Saints, 51) Two of Cristina’s friends were talking about Vittorio. However the situation changed, when Cristina was found pregnant from another men. The normal, peaceful household turned to chaos. Arguments and accusations constantly were going on between grandfather and Cristina. All respect for the grandfather, as a mayor vanished, with the shame for his daughter he had to give up his position. Grandfather hated Cristina for what she has done.
             I’ve suffered everyday of my life, but I’ve never had to walk through this town and hang my head in shame. Now people come to my house like they go to the circus, to laugh at the clowns! You’ve killed me Cristina, as surely as if you’d pulled a knife across my throught. In all my days I've never raised a hand against you but now I wish to God I’d locked you in the stable and raised you with the pigs, that you’d died and rotted in the womb, that you hadn’t lived long enough to bring this disgrace on my name? (Lives of the Saints, 145)
             Cristina’s deed was considered a scene, the work of “evil”. They were avoided, and they were excluded from the life of the village; basically they were treated like an outcast. It gave a great impact on Vottorio; he waited for things to go back to normal, spent most of the time alone. “I spent my time alone now, waiting for something to happen that would restore the normalcy of things.” (Lives of the Saints, 75) On the other hand, Vittorio’s life was completely different in Canada, in the novel In a Glass House. His father had to work really hard to get some money, and he expected Vittorio to work as hard as he did, in order to support the family. “ For a week or so he had me clean out an old chicken coop in the barn. After the barn he set me to work collecting broken glass in the alley between the greenhouses,” M...