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do we not care..............spo ilers

posted 15 years ago by wesleysr
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that she lets her father get bitten by the rattlesnake?

"The hardest thing you can do in this world is live in it. Be brave. Live."

[–] ExAxLxPx12 15 years ago

i think by this point she was just done, she realized that she needed to leave, her father was retarded, which i am not saying means his life is less than, but in Lewellen's eyes i think she was just realizing she needed to leave, going back to help would make her stuck with them again or her aunt might leave etc. she told him that she loved him and then just let it be, she walked away and she heard him get bit but she had said goodbye and so she left. thats kinda how i saw it anyway.

[–] metal_head1216 15 years ago

Ex has a point here. She didn't necessarily make or let him get bit. She just declined to warn him that dead rattlers can still bite. Think of Batman Begins - "I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you." Case in point. She didn't push him towards or throw the dead snake at him. She just minded her own business and let fate be fate.

No Sparkling Wiggles here!

[–] Warmfire 15 years ago

OP makes an interesting post - we're supposed to care that she doesn't continue taking care of her father when she is but a child who needs caring for herself. The point was not that her father was bitten. The point was that she was willing to let go enough to finally let someone take care of her instead of her taking care of everyone else. That she was the only one to care for her father at such a younge age was simply obscene. Her grandmother should have stood up to handle things with her father long before she actually did.

It was time for her to start over where someone would take care of her.