The biography, "Romulus My Father", shows that a persons attitude is the key to life. Discuss

Romulus My Father gives an insight into a person's attitude towards life. Different attitudes and morals are displayed, but ultimately reveal that a person's attitude towards honesty, loyalty, courage, charity and capacity for hard work is the key to life. Romulus's attitude towards honesty is the most important of his many values. Romulus strongly believed that honesty is the key to everything and that "only a rigorous truthfulness could give a person the inner unity …

…the value of life itself. Constantly, Hora suggests that Christina is a "characterless" woman, having neglected Raimond in his childhood. In the text, life is displayed as something achievable by only those who are honest, hardworking, loyal and courageous. These values are highly looked upon by not only Romulus, but also Hora, whose attitudes parallel Romulus's. We are shown that a person's attitudes towards things such as work and compassion are the keys to life.