His Motivations

After talking about the things that have brought him down, we also talked about his motivation to keep on going. We talked about little things and such but the thing that he kept talking about was his little sister Phoebe. You can tell that he loves his sister very much. Holden said "I started to think how old Phoebe would feel if i got pneumonia and died.....she'd feel pretty bad if something like that happened. she likes me alot....so finally what i figured id do, i figured id better sneak home and see her." This shows that Holden really cares about Phoebe. Throughout talking to my patient, the only other motivation he seeks is through his little brother Allie. His brother Allie died a while back. Other than these two people, nothing else really motivates him, so it is important to keep his sister Phoebe in his life or else he will have nothing to keep him going.