The love of a father
Posted by Amanda Minter | Posted on 12:12 PM
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Louis loses his son Gage to a large Orinco truck while he was playing keep away from his parents. Louis' family fights depression and sadness. His daughter Ellie won't talk and carries a picture of her and her brother everywhere she goes. Rachel can't even get the date straight. She also can not sleep and has to take pills. Louis can't comfort his family because he can't handle it himself. He just keeps re-picturing the accident over and over and wishes he could have saved Gage. Louis had a lot of bad things happen to him before losing his son, including losing Norma, Jud's wife, who was a person the kids looked to as a grandma. She was one of Louis' friends and it was hard for him to go to her funeral. Also, Louis loses his daughter's cat Church to a car. Victor Pascow was another person Louis loses. Victor is Louis' first patient at his new job and he loses him within minutes.
"This young man in the red gym shorts began to shudder all over. Suddenly he seemed to freeze with every muscle locked. His eyes lost their vacant expression momentarily and seemed to find Louis's eyes. Then everything let go at once. There was a bad stink Louis thought he would, must speak again. Then the eyes resumed their vacant expression . . . and began to glaze. The man was dead" (King 75).He goes through a lot of stress with moving in and is forced to cope with all the loss. Does he deserve to get back his son? Louis, throughout the novel, seems to love his son as much, if not more, than the rest of his family. He talks about his feelings toward him many times.
"'Ktye flyne!' Gage cried out to his father, and Louis put his arms around Gage's shoulders and kissed the boy's cheek, in which the wind had bloomed a wild rose. 'I love you, Gage' he said it--it was between the two of them, and that was alright" (King 224).Was it wrong for a father to try and bring back the son whom he loved so much? If you were put in this position, what would you do?
I don't believe Louis had the right to bring back his dead son. Once he did, his son ended up murdering most of his family. Bringing his son back was not only disrespectful to the family, but it was disrespectful to Gage as well. Once Gage was resurrected, he stopped paying attention to Ellie and gave up being a father by putting Gage first when his daughter really needed him. I would have never resurrected my son if he died, it is more disrespectful to the dead, bringing the dead back is a way of not letting them rest in peace. It's not fair for Gage, or his family.
~Mike Perrone