Augustine in his book begins it with a prayer in praise of God. We do read that book one has a very extensive invocation where its talking about how one can seek God without know what he even is. We read later that Augustine is considering to what extent and at a specific age he was sinning in his early infant age. Later, Augustine begins to remember more of his infancy which involves his service of learning to communicate with language which was Latin. Augustine did not like how language was taught in school because he felt that he was taught to speak as well as to write for corrupt purposes and those purposes were for gaining future honor as well as wealth. He does give his boyhood teacher some credit because he was taught the basic reading and as well as writing which he said was his “primary education”. He claimed that the rest of school was simply a matter of learning perverted human customs rather than learning the truth or even morality. When Augustine moved from the early years of his life he speaks more about the lurid and sinful times in his life. Augustine even though he was acting in sinful and erotic desires he did give himself some credit where he said, “the single desire that dominated my search for delight was simply to love and to be loved.” (Love and lust pg. 24) We see that book 2 ends with a consideration of the peer pressure, but Augustine will end up partly giving the blame to what he called the theft of the pears. He is telling us that friendship can be a very dangerous enemy and as he called it a seduction of the mind. He talks about his early life in this specific way because he wants his readers to know the lustful desires meaning sexual but as well as the beauty that can lead humanity into the sinful side of things. Augustine’s comes to the realization of self in the way of how it relates to God. His recognition of God’s love as well as his response to it is where he has achieved self-preservation which then leads to his self-realizations. Augustine truly has come to understanding that no one can achieve inner peace if they cannot see how much God loves His creation and just in general how much God loves.