RR #3

Adults cannot stand when life is too idyll. Their nature starts to operate the program of self destruction. Many can argue is it because the creation is more pleasant than consumption or simply we as a specie are not developed enough to form an society in a shape of any utopian writer’s imagination. The silent and most often helpless victims of those shocks are kids. In the novel Will had to observe his parents’ marriage falling apart.

When Griff started to have some secret appointments Jane started to withdraw herself from family life toward wine, art and solitude. She didn’t know that Will is an observer good enough to draw conclusions from what he saw. He started to ask tricky questions which parents and Marcy being afraid to answer tried to satisfy with half-truths. The syndromes were as it often happens overlooked and not taken seriously.

The turning point in this process was the scene when Griff, assuming that the house will be empty, came to pick up his stuff. “It’s the departing-father-and-son thing-the baffled-child-father-without-answers thing … the same old goddamn-bastard-walking-out-on-his-family shit… “. If that is the description of what have happened, how does the child must have seen it? The child who says with regret ” You’re not alone. You’re with someone else”.

Since then Will have changed. He started to climb on the roof to feed crows. It wasn’t his passion for those animals. It was his possibility to escape from the world he hated. His language reflects his feelings. During one argument he said: “ why don’t you all fuck off”. Is it the common language of kid going to third grade or only his attempt to be like an adult?

At this point I don’t know what have happened to Will. Maybe his parents got together again and form the happy family again or found someone else for the empty place in their lives. It doesn’t matter. These events will be for him like a scratch on the CD. The Song goes on, but on some point there is a silence of a missing part.