I'm in the middle of reading Where Are The Children by Mary Higgins Clark. The book is about Nancy Eldredge ( also Nancy Harmon) and how she is living her life trying to recover from the dissapearance of her children Peter and Lisa. But now, her children Michael and Missy are missing. In the book, Nancy is being accused of knowing where her kids are, or possibly even killing them. They aren't even really considering other people besides Nancy, because they believe that Nancy killed her other children: Peter and Lisa. This makes me think about the idea of how what you've done in the past can really affect you later in life.
In the book, Nancy was accused of killing Peter and Lisa. At that time, Nancy was married to someone who basically destroyed her. When she had a friend over, she said "I've got to get away from this." she also said "The children? Haha yeah I'm going to smother them later." The cops then got the idea that she wanted to "be free" of the children and "get away" so she killed them." I don't know why they would come up with this, considering they agreed it was evident that Nancy loved her kids very much, and she didn't seem very capable of killing them. One little comment Nancy made to a friend almost got her put in jail when she was standing trial for the disapearance of her kids.
And with Missy and Michael not found, the cops also accuse Nancy, for waiting to call the police, instead of calling immediately. This lead them to think maybe Nancy has something to hide. Or some secret, which is why she waited to call. I think she was just afraid. She was home alone in a pretty desolate area, she was put in a very stressful environment. She was in the same situation as she was with Peter and Lisa, so she probably just broke down a little.
So far in the book the importance of the little things Nancy has done or said has come up a lot. Those little things affect the way people see Nancy. Also, I think they also make people trust her a lot less, even though she was blamed for something she clearly didn't do.
Kimberlee,
ReplyDeleteThis post is really exellent at expanding on your ideas. I think that you provide a lot of evidence to support that "what you've done can affect you later in life." It is a very good, well thought out theme that I could not have come up with. One thing that you could have provided a few more details on is the quote, "The children? Haha yeah I'm going to smother them later." And then you said that you didn't know why this provoked the police to become suspicious, but I certainly do. I think that you should explain why this was not an example of Nancy wanting to kill her children, because that is what it seems like. Splendid job indeed, I enjoy your post very much.
Tiv