In the book 'The God Boy' chapter 6, Jimmy had a conversation with Bloody Jack. Jimmy talked about their parents and how he feels about them. After Bloody Jack heard Jimmy's worry, he gave and advice to Jimmy. What he said was try not to care about Jimmy's parents. He said, as long as parents are kind to Jimmy, he should not bother about their fight. It is not related to him.
This has a fundamental problem. As long as Jimmy is a human, he has ears and thoughts. He will be hearing the conversation between his father and mother as long as he is at home. Once he heard his parents fighting, he would start thinking. That's how human works and I think Jimmy will not be able not to care about this.
If I was Bloody Jack, I would give different advice to Jimmy. I would make him have a talk with his parents. If Jimmy didn't like their parents fighting then he can say that. Talking himself out will lead to real family peace. Bloody Jack's advice only gives the temporary peace. As long as Jimmy tried not to do something to this problem it will not erase his worry and loneness. If I summarize my advise it is 'try taking action, it would bring a light of hope'.
2 comments:
Yuta, I think your advice is good. But I don't think that Jimmy is able to do what you have. This is because he does not know how to settle his parent down and we can see this because of him using his protection trick.
Your advice is very good Yuta, the idea that Jimmy can bring to light what needs to be fixed with his parents or just to alert them to the fact that they are hurting him with their behaviour seems like it might be the best way to deal with the problem.
However, it would take a lot of strength to be able to put himself between his parents to explain how he feels. Poor Jimmy makes reference to how he feels like he is invisible or not seen by his mother when he is at home.
Maybe if Jimmy were older he sould say how he feels and perhaps make his parents more aware. The other thing that Jimmy might be afraid of is that they may turn on him in their anger.
I agree that he could maybe try speaking to them one at a time it may help his case as they would be more likely to listen.
Your opinion is communicated clearly, well done Yuta. You do need to edit your work for tense and grammar please.
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