Open-minded The Description of Carla
carries things that are far too heavy for her, to show her father how strong she is. She wants to be stronger than any boy around in the age. Even more, Carla proves
it by challenging the boys to fight her so that she is considered as a superior among them. Her actions are also helpful for her brothers and sisters because she
will fight anyone who hurts her brothers and sisters Van Raay 57.
Besides, Carla regularly wins the annual running race organized by parents
for the local kids. That Carla loves her father can be seen when she chooses the prizes of her win. She always chooses the things which her father can use. She
feels to be meaningful at the moment when her father laughs and shows he is proud of her. Then,
she feels very happy because of her father’s happiness. I just had to win for him, and the whole neighborhood seemed to know this
too and cheered me on. Afterwards I would look up at him breathlessly, showing him the bottle of sherry or whatever that I’d chosen as a prize. I
was white with anxiety and exhaustion: Now, Papa, will you think that I’m
good enough? Now, will you respect me? I didn’t care that the prizes I’d
chosen were things I couldn’t use myself – my papa could use them; that’s what mattered to my love-starved soul. He laughed, my papa did; he was
proud of me. I was painting with pleasure and with an inexplicable pain in my heart Van Raay 58.
Carla’s struggle to be a good child for her parents shows that Carla takes a valuing process of finding the meaning of life. She takes an experiential values as
what Frankl 73 states that experiential values consists of conviction and experience to the value of the truth, the good deeds, the beautifulness, the spirit,
the religion, and loving affection. In this case, Carla tries to find the meaning of life by feeling love and being loved by her parents since she is a good child.