Essay --

Clint Bartons past is a bit of a tricky subject, still not because he has any trouble remembering what took place. Born in Waverly, Iowa, Clint and his brother Barney neer got the pretend to feel particularly at home, and certainly never got the sense of safety that might have come with it. The Bartons never had much to their name, and the kids grew up in a rural area with no real community or extended family, exactly those factors merely amplified the real problems. Their father, Har ancient Barton, was an abusive alcoholic with a violent streak who regularly took give away his anger on his wife and two young children. And while their mother, Edith, did not perpetrate the abuse herself, she showed no signs of caring and made no efforts to bust it. In a tragic - or perhaps, fitting - twist of fate, Harold and Edith Barton were two killed in a car accident caused by Harolds drinking, leaving two young boys in the hands of the state. Clint was only 8 years old when his parents died, and Barney 10 - young enough that they were still impressionable and largely defenseless, but not young enough that anyone was re eithery interested in adopting, especially if the boys were to be kept together. For the next four years, Clint and Barney were shuffled from further home to foster home. Their life became a veritable parade of refreshing schools, new homes, new parents, and new siblings. Most of whom seemed more interested in the checks than in Clint and Barney. still they never stayed in one place long before it was pip to the next one. Sometimes it was nobodys fault - a caregiver realized they moreover werent cut out for this, the checks just werent enough to feed two outgrowth kids anymore, or the foster family finally got pregnant and wanted to start the... ...ning, order, punish and regulation, they actually seemed to have a higher tolerance for individual exit and mild insubordination than hed ever seen from the military. Plus, the beds had mattress es It was like he was Alice in Wonderland, stumbling shore the rabbit hole or some shit.And outside of all that, being picked up by SHIELD was one of the few times in Clints life that somebody really demonstrated some faith in him. It was the first time that someone gave him a shot that he probably didnt deserve, and let him live up to their expectations. He grew up hearing that he was a piece of shit who would never amount to anything, and hed spent a fair amount of his life proving people wrong when they assumed as much, but hed never really had someone take a chance on him. And that was... well, he certainly couldnt let them down after all that, could he?