Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 221 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations BEFORE we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Response to "You'll apologize if you have to" scenes

The author uses this part of the story to dive a little deeper into Wallace's personal life. You can get a sense of what kind of father he is and although he seems like he loves his daughter, he isn't really involved in her life. His ex Kim seems to be easy on him even though he missed the weekly meeting with his daughter she was still allowing him to take Molly and even have her spend the night with him. Wallace is a disappointment to Kim and seems like Molly doesn't really care much for him since he's hardly around. Wallace is too busy either preparing for fights or wallowing in self pity when he loses a fight. This is selfish of Wallace and although he seems to care for his daughter he isn't making her a priority in his life. He seems very comfortable by her being raised by another man, her stepdad.

Wallace tried to do the right thing by going over to the neighbors home and apologizing. I don't agree with him going into the home while the wife was alone, things could get even worse if the neighbor walked in on them drinking and chatting... which he did. I think that one of the reasons that Wallace went to apologize was that he cooled down after going to see his daughter and then the talk he had with his coach. He also didn't want any trouble and felt  bad that he lost his patience. The neighbors wife was strange but pretty functional for a drunk person. I wonder why she found it troubling that her husband lied about having kids in the house. I would think he wanted to exaggerate the situation so that Wallace would stop smoking weed around his home.


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