Chapter 18 tells us that fathers can have a huge impact in their child/children’s lives, helping them develop themselves and giving them a chance to learn. Zits’ father had the memory because he was at a stressful point in his life, he was going to become a father himself. He didn’t want to be the same type of father that his father was to him so instead he left Zits and his mother to not have a chance of abusing Zits the way he was abused. Sadly, Zits still has a lot of his father and the fathers of those fathers deep inside as he’s still a violent soul, he still drinks like them, still gets in trouble, and hangs out on the streets. Thankfully, Zits seems to be changing and pulling away from that cycle like his father tried to do before him.