{"id":588,"date":"2009-10-16T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/?p=588"},"modified":"2009-10-16T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T16:21:58","slug":"i-hardly-noticed-there-werent-tears-in-her-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/archives\/588","title":{"rendered":"I hardly noticed there weren’t tears in her eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this past week’s reading of Parable of the Sower<\/em> we learned that Lauren’s younger brother, Keith, dies in a gruesome manner and neither she nor their dad cries. Lauren says she’s never seen her dad cry, and perhaps because she looks up to him so much, she doesn’t cry either. Keith is her brother and she loves him as such but she never really likes him, and the fact that his death is not only eventual but expected, she feels less towards the loss. But the gril feels more connected with her dad, she respects him, looks up to him, and admires him as a leader, a father, and a person. So why doesn’t she cry when he disappears? At frist he’s only gone for a day or two and she has hope that he will come back home, but then he doesn’t and the community holds a funeral service, and not once does Lauren cry. Her step-mother Cory constantly cries over the loss of her son and husband, and the entire community mourns her father’s absence, so why doesn’t she feel the same? It seems odd that she should love a person so much and not be heartbroken by\u00a0his disappearance. The whole issue is left resolved at the moment, and I believe we’ll gain informaiton on the subject later in the novel simply because it feels so unfinished. Perhaps this is how Lauren feels as well, and she doesn’t want to believe her father is truly gone, even though she pushes through he denial and tells herself “So he’s dead. That’s that.” But if this is true then she should be sad, and yet she continues to dream about leaving the community to head north and only views her father’s absence as a possible hinderance in her plans. I think Lauren’s hyperempathy has forced her to learn to not feel in certain situations so she can protect herself. This is a learned response and she can’t cry because it would leave her weakened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this past week’s reading of Parable of the Sower we learned that Lauren’s younger brother, Keith, dies in a gruesome manner and neither she nor their dad cries. Lauren says she’s never seen her dad cry, and perhaps because she looks up to him so much, she doesn’t cry either. Keith is her brother… Continue reading I hardly noticed there weren’t tears in her eyes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}