Pg:116-133 Analysis:

• Harriet felt as though she was the scapegoat of the family, the “destroyer of the family” It wasn’t in her nature to leave Ben in the institution and go on with her happy family. After the family drifted apart she focused more on Ben and Paul. Ben started to make friends at first and that relieved Harriet that he was socializing. But Ben was in the wrong crowd, doing things that were illegal. We see that in the end he was only on the search to find someone out there who was just like him. By appearing in the local news he hoped that someone, somewhere in the world, could see that he existed and to come and accept him.