"George and the Pink House" by V.S. Naipaul is a sad story about a family that little by little
decomposes because the one that should be guiding the family is not a good
person. The author describes this family of a mean man named George. He talks
about the fear that George and his pink house gave him. George is a man that
beat his family, kills his wife, and even found a husband to his daughter so he
cannot have all the charge of his daughter after killing his wife. George at
the end dies very lonely.
This is a sad story that nowadays still happens; I have seen similar kinds of stories. Like the author of this story said: “I couldn’t understand how anybody in the world would want to live with George”. It’s hard to believe that we can see this happening and that we can see people that live with bad persons like George. I have known wives that stay with their abusive husbands for many inexcusable reasons. They stay with their husband because: they want their children grow up with a father, because they had made a promise in matrimony to never leave their husbands, they don’t want anybody to talk bad about them, they want to protect their husbands dignity by not telling anyone that he is a bad man, or that their husband threat them so they can’t speak what’s happening in their house. These kinds of women are always behind their husband, they don’t do anything without them and they don’t see like a proper person like the author said about George’s wife: “George’s wife was never a proper person. I always thought of her just as George’s wife, and that was all.” These women should leave these excuses apart and think about how this situation can conclude, this situation can conclude in a bad outcome like George’s family had. George’s wife inaction resulted in her own death.
This is a sad story that nowadays still happens; I have seen similar kinds of stories. Like the author of this story said: “I couldn’t understand how anybody in the world would want to live with George”. It’s hard to believe that we can see this happening and that we can see people that live with bad persons like George. I have known wives that stay with their abusive husbands for many inexcusable reasons. They stay with their husband because: they want their children grow up with a father, because they had made a promise in matrimony to never leave their husbands, they don’t want anybody to talk bad about them, they want to protect their husbands dignity by not telling anyone that he is a bad man, or that their husband threat them so they can’t speak what’s happening in their house. These kinds of women are always behind their husband, they don’t do anything without them and they don’t see like a proper person like the author said about George’s wife: “George’s wife was never a proper person. I always thought of her just as George’s wife, and that was all.” These women should leave these excuses apart and think about how this situation can conclude, this situation can conclude in a bad outcome like George’s family had. George’s wife inaction resulted in her own death.
We can also see that this situation can be painful to
everybody in the family. I can infer that George’s sons, in addition of suffering
abuse from their father and seeing their mother suffer, they were in pain too
because of the death of their mother. Also we can see that the inaction of the
mother against the abuse also resulted that when she wasn’t alive, George found
a husband for his daughter Dolly. Even Dolly didn’t claim for help she was
always giggling and obeying her father. Dolly was giggling but not because she
was happy; we can see this in this text: “The women and the Americans made
Dolly and Razor kiss and kiss, and they cheered. Dolly giggled. Hat said, ‘She
ain’t giggling, you know. She crying really."https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_zWIVRIWk
I find this sentence to be true: " These women should leave these excuses apart and think about how this situation can conclude, this situation can conclude in a bad outcome like George’s family had".
ResponderBorrarDelmarie Torres
Your point of view is very important, the silence need to be over in these kind of situations or like you say it can conclude in a bad situation, in this case death. While I was reading this reflection come to my mind all the suffering that people have in families like these. This reflection make in me a new feeling of take the place of other person and ask me, what if was me, my mother or my sister? We need to feel the situations of each other to be ready and fight with the situation.
ResponderBorrarGood! George's sons have time scape of that horrible situation?
ResponderBorrarI expect to read about how do you feel about a real case. When I was reading I thought that we never know how is to be with a man who beat you but I know that we have to support the woman or whatever the gender is. "is a sad story about a family that little by little decomposes"
I would like to hear more about how every one of the family suffered. I liked that you said that this situation is very painful for everyone. This is very sad story because it could had a very different ending. another thing that is very important is how you used the quote thats says that Dolly is crying. Sometimes we misunderstand some behaviors and we think they are ok but they are just broken down.
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