It's Change Of Heart all over again (warning:spoiler!!)
I'm extremely frustrated right now.
So much that I have to stop reading House Rules and take a break before I get upset and unable to read a single sentence. It may have to do with my unstable emotions right now, but I don't care. That also have to do with my unstable emotions.
It's Shay Bourne and Elizabeth Nealon all over again. Without the dash of religion all swirled up in the chaos. Oliver becomes Maggie Bloom, and Father Michael becomes Theo.
Most importantly, Jacob Hunt, becomes Shay Bourne, and Jess becomes Elizabeth.
A murder.
A disabled protagonist accused of said murder.
The evidences of how rotten humanity has become.
Jodi Picoult makes me question these things. That being human doesn't make our actions acceptable by any degree of dehumanizing disabled people. "Normal", is by all means, a set-up point of a limbo stick. That humans, especially those who reigns a sort of higher positions, have little understanding or practice regarding humane actions.
That we live in a self-centered society.
Just like Charlie Gordon, isn't it?
Because he wanted to fit in, everything he'd done was his fault.
I quote from Emma Hunt, House Rules by Jodi Picoult,
"...But I watched the faces of the jury as they stared at Jacob, and I saw the same expression I've seen a thousand times before. That mental distancing, that subtle knowledge that there is something wrong with that boy.
Because he doesn't interact the way they do.
Because he doesn't grieve the way they do.
Because he doesn't move or speak the way they do.
.....They gave Jacob enough rope to hang himself in social situations, and then set the blame squarely on his shoulders." -Emma Hunt, House Rules.
Jacob, is as much special as Shay or Charlie.
Yet people ridicule him for it.
We pride ourselves being human, when the acts of humanity aren't there.
How arrogant, aren't we?
It infuriates me.
It frustrates me.
And then with all the adults hullabaloo, just making things even worse and worse by the goddamn minute.
Oh boohoo you're tired of being a loser in the court here have sex with your client's associates who you will disappoint later on. Yippee ki-yay motherfucker.
Oh boohoo you feel guilty of walking out on your family years ago and now you popped in out of fucking nowhere expecting to be filled in the details of your abandoned children's lives whereas you new family was A-OKAY with everything as long as you don't abandon them just like you did your old family. Magnifico, Mamma Mia!
Oh boo fucking hoo.
Don't we all have fucking conscience.
I would've kicked that fucking asshole's ass the moment I see his fucking face on my doorstep. You walked out on us buddy. You don't get to turn back. Motherfucker.
I get that love changes. I get that sometimes, marriage doesn't work. I get it.
But to walk out on somebody, never turning back for YEARS, and then suddenly, out of motherfucking nowhere, pops in the house......well, that deserves a bullet hole up where the sun doesn't goddamn shine. In my opinion.
If you walked out, you better make sure you don't turn back.
Because there'd be a gun hole pointing at your fucking face.
That is what drives me crazy the most.
Plus the inhumane society we live in.
So much that I have to stop reading House Rules and take a break before I get upset and unable to read a single sentence. It may have to do with my unstable emotions right now, but I don't care. That also have to do with my unstable emotions.
It's Shay Bourne and Elizabeth Nealon all over again. Without the dash of religion all swirled up in the chaos. Oliver becomes Maggie Bloom, and Father Michael becomes Theo.
Most importantly, Jacob Hunt, becomes Shay Bourne, and Jess becomes Elizabeth.
A murder.
A disabled protagonist accused of said murder.
The evidences of how rotten humanity has become.
Jodi Picoult makes me question these things. That being human doesn't make our actions acceptable by any degree of dehumanizing disabled people. "Normal", is by all means, a set-up point of a limbo stick. That humans, especially those who reigns a sort of higher positions, have little understanding or practice regarding humane actions.
That we live in a self-centered society.
Just like Charlie Gordon, isn't it?
Because he wanted to fit in, everything he'd done was his fault.
I quote from Emma Hunt, House Rules by Jodi Picoult,
"...But I watched the faces of the jury as they stared at Jacob, and I saw the same expression I've seen a thousand times before. That mental distancing, that subtle knowledge that there is something wrong with that boy.
Because he doesn't interact the way they do.
Because he doesn't grieve the way they do.
Because he doesn't move or speak the way they do.
.....They gave Jacob enough rope to hang himself in social situations, and then set the blame squarely on his shoulders." -Emma Hunt, House Rules.
Jacob, is as much special as Shay or Charlie.
Yet people ridicule him for it.
We pride ourselves being human, when the acts of humanity aren't there.
How arrogant, aren't we?
It infuriates me.
It frustrates me.
And then with all the adults hullabaloo, just making things even worse and worse by the goddamn minute.
Oh boohoo you're tired of being a loser in the court here have sex with your client's associates who you will disappoint later on. Yippee ki-yay motherfucker.
Oh boohoo you feel guilty of walking out on your family years ago and now you popped in out of fucking nowhere expecting to be filled in the details of your abandoned children's lives whereas you new family was A-OKAY with everything as long as you don't abandon them just like you did your old family. Magnifico, Mamma Mia!
Oh boo fucking hoo.
Don't we all have fucking conscience.
I would've kicked that fucking asshole's ass the moment I see his fucking face on my doorstep. You walked out on us buddy. You don't get to turn back. Motherfucker.
I get that love changes. I get that sometimes, marriage doesn't work. I get it.
But to walk out on somebody, never turning back for YEARS, and then suddenly, out of motherfucking nowhere, pops in the house......well, that deserves a bullet hole up where the sun doesn't goddamn shine. In my opinion.
If you walked out, you better make sure you don't turn back.
Because there'd be a gun hole pointing at your fucking face.
That is what drives me crazy the most.
Plus the inhumane society we live in.
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