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How Would They Have Grown If Paddy Hadn't Died?

posted 14 years ago by cjmg85
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An interesting thought, if Paddy Button hadn't died, how do you think things would have been different? They probably would have still grown up falling in love, but it probably would have been more secretive with Paddy present. Or maybe not, who knows.

He (Paddy) probably would have gotten that signal fire lit on first sight of the ship when Emmeline failed / refused to. How would their attitudes and overall maturity been different later on with him still there?

Interesting idea to think of, but it would probably just haven't been the same with him there all along. He was an excellent mentor to them, however, and I wonder how much more he would have been able to teach them. He of course taught them all he could about survival, perhaps he could have moved on to teaching them more about life as they got older. Definitely wouldn't have been the same movie, it was absolutely beautiful how they discovered it (life) all on their own.

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[–] cjmg85 14 years ago

Actually I really liked Paddy, and although I think it was appropriate for him to die for the story to continue as it did, I wish that they had shown at least one or maybe even two more scenes with him interacting with Richard and Em as children before dying.

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[–] student_points 13 years ago

i think if he had lived he would've ended up raping emmeline. A hardend sailor, who has had women in every port, now stuck on an island with such a beautiful women and no access to nooky? I think it was lucky for emmeline he did die.

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[–] mjedelin 11 years ago

Would they understand rape though? I mean the idea of it? I feel like if they had no idea what sex was, they wouldn't get that "rape" was wrong. I know this sounds horrible, but speaking from the prospective of kids that have never seen a pregnant woman, most likely wouldn't grow to understand rape (or sex for that matter).

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[–] santhony-2 11 years ago

Not knowing what modern society is would have been a good thing for Richard & Em. They would remain "pure" sort of speak and not be currupted by various influences or expectations that come with growing up in a big city.

[–] skinny_school_girl 10 years ago

OT but I thought I should say this: I was sexually abused by someone when I was five. I didn't understand sex but what I DID understand was that it was wrong what this man was doing to me. Children may not understand sex but they know when they're being hurt.

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[–] [email protected] (2017) 6 days ago

What is wrong with you? Just because that is what you would've done, does not mean others are as hideous as you. Paddy has not shown any indication nor was presented as evil, he was a hard man but a good man underneath.

[–] thomasdosborneii 13 years ago

Richard (who would have become a big strong teenager) would have ended up having to kill Paddy to keep him from raping Emmeline once she grew up.

[–] [email protected] (2017) 6 days ago

Interesting that some people here project to what they would've done with Emmeline.

[–] Dragoneyed363 10 years ago

Yeah, Paddy would have taught them much more and they wouldn't have been as naive, but I'm glad that's not how it turned out...

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[–] liamforeman 8 years ago

Paddy would have gotten to Emme first and fathered her first child. Then he and Richard would probably alternate being fathers to her children. And happiness would be shared by all.