Thomas and Victor were two boys who dealt with the lost of their loved ones in two different ways. Thomas lost both his father and mother in a fire, later we learned that Victor’s father set that fire. Victor grew up without his father because his father wasn’t able to deal with the lost he caused. I guess in a way Victor’s father didn’t want to live with something that he took from someone else, a family.
Victor grew up as an angry boy who was devastated by the father that left him. He went on the next ten years hearing Thomas a boy that was a little mentally handicapped on what a great person Victor’s dad was. Victor’s of course all he remembered was a man that drank, hit him and his mother, and in the end never came back for him. Thomas was a very caring boy who loved telling stories to Victor and remembered things that may have not been very true. However I think that Thomas always just tried to bring Victor to forgive his father and to let Victor see his dad how he saw him.
I feel that Victor and Thomas completed each other. Victor being the one that really never trusted anyone and who know how the world worked. Thomas was the dreamer the one that saw something good in everything especially his hero. Victor’s father after all he did catch him when someone threw him out the window of his burning house. Luckily when Victor was able to find out the reason for his father living he never told Thomas that his hero was a killer. Victor needed Thomas to show him his knder side, just like Victor's mother said she took help from others. She wasn't the only one that made her famous bread so famous she had help from others.
Michelle,
ReplyDeleteI like how you described that Thomas's hero was a a killer. Though it is true, it was the least thing Arnold could do was to be in place of Thomas's parents. He owed it that much to him. It's also very nice of Thomas to feel forgiving about it towards the end of the movie. He was so grateful of Victor to share some of Arnold's ashes.