ENG (03/05/08) Post B

ENG (03/05/08) Post B

The Book of Lost Things
BY John Connolly

Post B


Dear David's father...


I was very depressed when you shouted at your son, David. Did you even hear what Rose had said? had done? I'm curious. I would like to point out that you are a very bad dad. In that afternoon when Rose and David had their worst fight, clearly you weren't there. David and Rose had this quarrel, verbally, then at last Rose hit David. With a slap at his cheeck David bursted into tears and went to his room. Rose asked for his forgiveness and said sorry but it was too late. David's heart and tears wore off already and there was no one who actually could understand him... After you came, the situation have gotten worse. I believe that you should've been more clever about dealing with your child. You abandoned the books and toys from him for a day. You know that he can't stand without having those. They became his life after his mother was gone. I hope that you know that...
I'm not sure what Rose had said, but I 'm clearly sure that it wasn't all the truth that she's spoken. I think you are a helpless father for David. He thinks of you as a hero... a secret code working hero who works solving secret codes against Germans... (during WWII) but you just disrupted that just by shouting and taking away things that you shouldn't have had.
Think wisely and put yourself into David's position. Maybe you don't know what it is like to be David. Try to understand what is in him.

Tina Jung