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Friday, April 13, 2007
The Family and things...
So in chapter eight Tom goes home and talks to his parents about being paroled from prison, his mother feels that he could be insane because she once knew someone with a child who went insane in prison. They also fear that he had broken out illegally and he had to reassure them that was not the case. So after that explanation...the point remains that when he came to the house no one recognized him...What does that mean exactly? How could someone not recognize their own son? Have they moved on and completely forgotten him? How would that make Tom feel?
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Prison changes people, mentally AND physically. Also keep in mind that it had been 4 years since they've seen him. Tom is probably a little bothered by it, but I doubt he's extremely upset.
Well people change. prison changes a person, sometimes to where they are unrecognizable. plus it had been four years since his parents had seen him and again he had changed. it probably bothered him some, but im sure he understood.
it's not like the had no idea who he was. it took his father a little while, but he recognized him on his own. i mean if you saw someone you didn't expect to see ever agian, you would probably wrestle with yourself for a while, trying to explain their presence.
as for the mom, she just couldn't see Tom, with the sun coming in behind him, he was just a dark shadow. but as soon as she could see him clearly, she was silenced and stopped what she was doing.
anyway, its not that no one recognized Tom, they just didn't expect to see him...
I think that his family had gone through so much in the past years (losing their home, having a much harder life than before)that they didn't really have time to think about or miss Tom.
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