The Mother isn’t frightened of it, after all.
She has been there through it all and has accepted that it was his time to pass. Maybe she knows that he doesn't have to suffer anymore
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- Mar 2018
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All her hairstyles connote innocence, or princess – Rapunzel, Hebe, coronet – and she has grown out of them, all at once, and not noticed
Irony? The change from innocence to when reality sets in that he died
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mother-unit
loses humanity-- calling her mother-unit makes her sound like more of a robot than a human
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your soul doesn’t exist. Your mind doesn’t, even. Your mind is a bit of your body.
This got so philosophical... talking about how everything is physical and that they way to fix the physical problems is by taking medicine to help them get through
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Like chess
Acting like it is a game because he is a kid
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His Mother was on her way to the library,
His Mother wasn't there because she has to live life still. She can't just give up on her own life and spend all day every day at the hospital. But she could "feel" that something was wrong and sprinted back to the hospital. Mother's instinct I would guess!
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I see them everywhere.
Sounds like the son is comparing sick kids to ghosts... like they aren't real or at least that they aren't really living
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She should be dead,’ says the Son, ‘like in nature. I mean if that baby was born in a primitive tribe she’d be dead in seconds
Comparing now to primitive times, when a sick baby would not have survived if they were sick...
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