Wealth limits our imagination

Ulices 2022-03-21 09:03:19

You can never imagine the pressure on poor families who are unemployed, sick, and have many children. How can they have normal personalities and views of right and wrong under such pressure, the bottom line? The more stressed they are, the more twisted they are. (Just like "The Fantastic Drifting of Pi" is actually a tragic story of people eating people, not tigers eating people.) There are so many children, I believe the mother wants to throw one away at any time, right? Her own life is a problem. So these children do everything possible to please their mother, for fear that the mother will anger him and put the blame on the unfortunate scapegoat. This big family group is like an underworld gang. Probably they have gained some benefits through the gang committing crimes, and they also understand that unity is strength, and individuals cannot compete with this kind of strength. They are so poor, they must be treated unfairly, and they find an outlet to vent their grievances

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  • Gertrude Baniszewski: You know what it's like to be sick, Sylvia. I've been sick for so long, too. I can't... discipline my kids they was I should. I punish them I know, but... sometimes with my medicine I gets so I don't know what I'm doing.

    [begins to cry]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: And I care for them so much. Paula, the thing is... Paula's a lot like me. I had her when I was just about your age. Then Stephanie. Then all the others. Then John left... And here I am on medicine, doing whatever I can to keep my family together. I want something better for Paula... There has to be something better... And I need to protect my children...

    [cries]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: Do you understand that? You kids... you're all I've got... Thank you, Sylvia. Thank you for understanding, thank you.

  • Sylvia Likens: She sacrificed me to protect her children, and she sacrificed her children to protect herself.