The day on Sunday Nov.14, 2004, little did they know, would change their lives forever. Kevin and Alex were off to church leaving his wife and three children home. Church was over and they were one the way home when Kevin pulls out in front of a car, that he did not see coming at the intersection. Kevin was thrown out of the car and was lying in the ditch Alex was still in the car unresponsive and not breathing. The firefighter who went to Alex knew not to move his head so he placed his hand on little Alex’s chest to see if he was breathing, when he realized he was not, he began to pray over him.
Not knowing that their friendship was forbidden, he gives Shmuel a piece of bread while Shmuel is cleaning the glasses. When Lieutenant Koler finds out that Shmuel had eaten a piece of bread, he beats him. Because Bruno hadn’t known that the two boys were not supposed to be friends, he had gotten Shmuel beaten. Had his parents told him the truth from the beginning that he wasn’t supposed to be anywhere near Jewish people, he would not have had to see his friend hurt. The main message Ogden sends in “Hangman” is that silence is dangerous.
You are not going to lock yourself in a room like this ok?” Willy laughed, promised Biff that everything would be alright. Biff walked into the room, lied on the bed as he told Willy he failed his math test, and how he couldn’t get enough credits to graduate because of that. Willy on the other hand seems unfocused, for everything Biff said, he either nodded his head or said something short, hold his hands together on his laps, as if he is about to be interrogated. Biff found it unusual, in his memory every time he told Willy something about his scores; Willy would say a hell lot of things, about how he was always popular. As Biff was thinking, a sudden laughter interrupted him, it was a woman, and it was from the bathroom.
In one episode Phil, the husband of the typical family, is writing jokes for a realtors banquet he is hosting. Claire, the wife, hears one of his joke; she laughs at this joke to make her husband feel good about himself but truly doesn’t believe it was funny at all. She knows that if he goes on stage and tells these jokes no one will laugh at them and he will humiliate himself, but doesn’t want to tell him directly because she doesn’t want to hurt his feelings, but his feelings could be hurt even worse if he goes on stage and tells his jokes and no one laughs. In the same episode Cam, the boyfriend of Mitch in the gay couple, starts to exercise because he is overweight. Mitch is overjoyed that he started to exercise, but he wears unflattering tight bike shorts.
SF is a homemaker, and has been for 20 years, but enjoys attending a gym for exercise, getting out to the book club, and shopping. She is 40 years old, born in New Jersey and is trim, but expressed concerns several times over her weight. She is primary caregiver to daughter HF and stated she is overwhelmed by the care she needs to coordinate for HF, brain-injured in a car accident that HF’s sister, EF was responsible for. SF was tearful several times in talking about her life. HF is 17 years old, born in Lancaster, and a year ago was injured in a car accident, sustaining head injuries which left her partially paralyzed and blind in the right eye.
He and Linda discuss their sons, whom Willy is quite disappointed in, especially Biff. In an effort to quell their father, Biff and Happy, their sons, decide to try and start a business together. Both propositions fail; Biff’s attempt at a loan is met with failure and Willy’s discussion with his boss goes awry. The three have dinner at a local restaurant, where Biff plans to tell his dad of his blunder. When Willy arrives, he refuses to listen to Biff, which angers him.
For example they call their mothers ‘mater’, the Latin word for ‘mother’. Betjeman does not really remember why Percival wants to fight him but he makes it quite clear that the perfect boy is trying to defend somebody who has been treated very badly by the poet. Being a coward deep down and remembering past experiences when he had been badly beaten. J.B. finds it very hard to settle down to a good’s night sleep the night before the fight. However he would not tell anyone how frightened he was, “Thin seemed pyjamas and inadequate The regulation blankets once so warm, ‘What’s up?’ ‘Oh nothing.’ I expect they knew…” In the morning, at breakfast when the poet arrived, he had a brainwave which he thought would help to get him out of the difficult situation ha had landed himself in.
Attending these events was a normal occurrence as we have been friends for more than twenty years. On this particular occasion however, Dawn asked me to speak with her twenty-three year old daughter, Chrissie, whose been struggling with her weight for over eighteen months. Chrissie became visibly upset that her mother spoke about her weight during this family gathering and left the room. Personally, I wanted to reach out to Chrissie but professionally I knew it was neither the time nor place for me to address what her mother called a weight loss intervention. Leaning the side of caution, I permitted my professional judgment to set the boundaries on approaching Chrissie regarding this subject.
What would it feel if I can wake up everyday forgetting what happened for the last whole year? Lucy in the movie “50 First Dates” told me this feeling. Every morning when she woke up, she only rememberred the Sunday of last year which was her father’s birthday, also the date she had the car accident which made her only keep memory before Sunday, so she always felt happy living the same habit as what she did on Sunday a year ago with the kind set-up by her father and brother. After meeting Henry, she could only remember who he was on the same day. But after one night, he became a stranger to her.
He is not excited to receive the Sacrament but the collection, so he can go see James Cagney at the local theater. He receives First Communion but his grandma won’t let him get his collection until he has had his First Communion breakfast. He ends up throwing his breakfast up along with the host from his Communion. Now his grandma wants him to ask the priest how to clean it up in confession. This is one of the more comical parts of the chapter.