Although he does feel bad that he just abandoned him so close to the end of his father’s life, it didn’t stop him from doing it. “I went to look for him. But at the same moment this thought came into my mind: ‘Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself.’ Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever” (101). Here we saw Elie’s feelings towards his father really come through.
Eden had stopped trying to find answers after he was turned town several times. Years had passed and his youngest son Bond was now curious who the rest of his family was. Eden again thinking that he was going to be turned down again tried calling that agency one last time. Surprisingly he had a letter for him from his biological sister. He read the letter and found out that he was put up for adoption when he was a baby because his mother was sixteen and his father was eighteen.
Now that his whole family died, Creon feels guilty for their deaths and will never achieve true happiness again. The “no happiness without wisdom” concept can be applied to all eras, even today’s. If people in this world didn’t have wisdom, there wouldn’t be any happiness in the world. “A man can never be too sure of anything” (Sentry, scene 2) Sentry speaks these words to Creon talking about the crime Antigone committed. Creon thinks that Antigone buried her brother, and sentry gives this advice stating that they don’t know who
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer is a real life story about a little boy who was mentally, physically, and emotionally abused by his mother. The book begins with the ending where Dave is rescued by his teachers and School nurse. I think this was a good way to start the book so that after the ending he can tell us about all the experiences he went through to get there. In the beginning, Dave had a normal life with his mom, dad and two siblings. His parents’ marriage started to fall apart and that’s when things started to change.
the eighteenth shot of liquid sin would somehow make me whold. I really meant those words I said when I promised not to drink, but standing by my lifeless husband, I had no time to think. It all seemed so surreal that day after all was said and done, I started down that lonely path where I had first begun. I took my grief, my fear and pain and shoved it all away,
“She is a part of a past that cannot be recovered or changed by anything I can do now. My father always told me that it was my birth that robbed her of her sanity. So as a child I had to carry the weight of my mother's madness as something that was my own doing.” (Davies 148) Paul had believed his whole life that Mary's insanity was caused by his birth, and once the truth came out, Paul was no longer guilty. The lift of guilt allowed him to feel again, something he was not able to do for a very long time. After the truth is learned about Mary
I get the feeling that she was sick from before because of the fact that she killed her husband and went into hiding. I also sympathize with her because if my husband or any family member was brain dead I kind-of would’ve wanted to end their suffering too but at least stick around to do the time after, instead of running away like you planned it. Maybe while her husband was “dead” she snapped and just couldn’t take it anymore, standing around waiting for your loved one to die is just horrible, and maybe during that timing she just had a break down physiologically, and emotionally.
Kemmerich’s mother is not convinced that Paul is telling the truth, saying, “I have felt how terribly he died. I have heard his voice at night, I have felt his anguish—tell the truth, I want to know it, I must know it” (180). Paul deliberately continues being vague in order to comfort his comrade’s mother. She is relentless in investigating her son’s death, pleading, “Are you willing never to come back yourself, if isn’t true?” and Paul quickly replies, “May I never come back if he wasn’t killed instantaneously” (181). This is
“Chris's smoldering anger, it turns out was fueled by a discovery he'd made two summers earlier, during his cross-country wanderings... Chris pieced together the facts of his father's previous marriage and subsequent divorce-facts to which he hadn't been privy.” (p. 121) This is not good mainly for Chris and his dad's relationship and also his mom and him. He was enraged at the fact that he was never told and that his dad would lie to him or be deceitful and not tell him about his first family and
Antigone knows that Creon knows what she has done and states, “I gave myself to death, long ago, so I might serve the dead.” Her brother not being buried changes the relationship she has with her uncle because her uncle now wants her to suffer and to e tormented for something she thought was right. Anti gone dies because she kills herself in a cave she can’t escape from. She hung herself and the first person to realize she was dead is Creon’s son Haemon. Haemon was devastated and wanted to kill the person responsible and he felt that there wasn’t a force on the planet that could stop him. Creon is told by Tiresias that if he doesn’t change the way he is bad things are going to happen.