#savearthurradley
Arthur Radley's case in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is SO DOWNRIGHT MORBID how come it's not highlighted more for its insane cruelty that is 'not intruding in private life of a family', they know better, don't they?
Okay, I can get his father was so much of a zealot, religious fervour clouding his right mind (I doubt there was any to begin with), that he figured sacrifizing his son's normal human life wasn't much of a deal - anything to keep the mighty noble family name untainted with stupid teens' shenanigans.
But when that crazy maniac of a parent (oh his sonny stabbed him in the leg with scissors? After having been locked up by his loving daddy for 15-smth years??? Not much of an issue, really? Get to meet the №1 top-notch admirable parenting level over9000 and a golden medal in the name of one certain Misaki Aoyagi, HOLY JESUS) finally perishes (and not even from those scissors), Arthur's older BROTHER returns from whatever he's been up to, all grown-up and independent and dandy and courtly and traveling the world and educated and self-sustainable and wishing as he pleases - and this man, free from the YEARS OF CONTINUOUS BRAINWASHING - he continues to be Arthur's PRISONER, taking the job right after his father, probably ALL FOR THE GREATER GOOD.
WHYYYYYYY???! Why on the everloving Earth is this subject not discussed in every parenting facility? Okay, not just there, but, honestly, everywhere - why did Nathan Radley deem his family name/honour/whatever so above, so much more important than A LIVING HUMAN shell that has become of his brother thanks to his loving caring attentive parents??
And they didn't want to have Arthur put into asylum after the scissors accident because that woud taint the family name - OH C'MON, those oh so noble vermins of a kinsfolk were worth than all asylums combined!
(Well maybe they didn't qualify enough to compete with the 1994's "Giorgino" movie (dat one creepy awesome Laurent Boutonnat's creation with Mylène Farmer) asylum, BUT HECK THEY WERE CLOSE)
I can totally understand how this issue of one hell of a family can be easily overlooked by more pressing situations described in the book, dire in their nature and consequences, but this one little drama of a single man denied his life (Nathan cementing that oak tree? OH GEEZ that's not just "mean" or "as a means to protect dear smol brother" that's the madness in its finest) - this drama has absolutely had my hair standing electrically straight on my head, because now this has been a blast of a finest horror story ever.
Most horrible blasts are supposed to be covered, hushed, go unnoticed, not be put in the limelight much - that's the theme I've been following closely ever since I got acquiainted with the "Loveless" Yun Kouga's manga series that has the very same approach to family's ugly businesses - those are to be hidden beneath cute decorations and sweet fake smiles, and never to be talked of neither in whispers nor anyhow. Everyone just shuts up and looks away as if nothing out of the ordinary happens. BUT IT HAPPENS.
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Bottom line to this (mostly rhethorical but hey if you ever felt like shouting out for Arthur's sickening case of outright mad injustice (wanna navigate the process of rotting your sibling alive? FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE, exclusive step-by-step tutorial) - it's the time to do just that! I guess I need me a fix-it continuation (and not the one about the watchman, I doubt whether I should read that one?), a fanmade continuation where Scout saves Arthur.
No need for logic, or laws, or prejudices, just a fanmade remedy, anything to quell this atrocity's blinding light of agony; 'The Tombs of Atuan' with a highly toxic twist in the characters' surroundings, revised into the unmagical mundane pit of madness, and a miracle of salvation somewhere over there in the restless reader's mind.
I get all the reasons why we could never get a scenario like this from the author herself, so were the days, my friend, those were the days, but a girl can dream, huh, to meditate on a therapy from this horror of a side-story within a story.
Okay, I can get his father was so much of a zealot, religious fervour clouding his right mind (I doubt there was any to begin with), that he figured sacrifizing his son's normal human life wasn't much of a deal - anything to keep the mighty noble family name untainted with stupid teens' shenanigans.
But when that crazy maniac of a parent (oh his sonny stabbed him in the leg with scissors? After having been locked up by his loving daddy for 15-smth years??? Not much of an issue, really? Get to meet the №1 top-notch admirable parenting level over9000 and a golden medal in the name of one certain Misaki Aoyagi, HOLY JESUS) finally perishes (and not even from those scissors), Arthur's older BROTHER returns from whatever he's been up to, all grown-up and independent and dandy and courtly and traveling the world and educated and self-sustainable and wishing as he pleases - and this man, free from the YEARS OF CONTINUOUS BRAINWASHING - he continues to be Arthur's PRISONER, taking the job right after his father, probably ALL FOR THE GREATER GOOD.
WHYYYYYYY???! Why on the everloving Earth is this subject not discussed in every parenting facility? Okay, not just there, but, honestly, everywhere - why did Nathan Radley deem his family name/honour/whatever so above, so much more important than A LIVING HUMAN shell that has become of his brother thanks to his loving caring attentive parents??
And they didn't want to have Arthur put into asylum after the scissors accident because that woud taint the family name - OH C'MON, those oh so noble vermins of a kinsfolk were worth than all asylums combined!
(Well maybe they didn't qualify enough to compete with the 1994's "Giorgino" movie (dat one creepy awesome Laurent Boutonnat's creation with Mylène Farmer) asylum, BUT HECK THEY WERE CLOSE)
I can totally understand how this issue of one hell of a family can be easily overlooked by more pressing situations described in the book, dire in their nature and consequences, but this one little drama of a single man denied his life (Nathan cementing that oak tree? OH GEEZ that's not just "mean" or "as a means to protect dear smol brother" that's the madness in its finest) - this drama has absolutely had my hair standing electrically straight on my head, because now this has been a blast of a finest horror story ever.
Most horrible blasts are supposed to be covered, hushed, go unnoticed, not be put in the limelight much - that's the theme I've been following closely ever since I got acquiainted with the "Loveless" Yun Kouga's manga series that has the very same approach to family's ugly businesses - those are to be hidden beneath cute decorations and sweet fake smiles, and never to be talked of neither in whispers nor anyhow. Everyone just shuts up and looks away as if nothing out of the ordinary happens. BUT IT HAPPENS.
***
Bottom line to this (mostly rhethorical but hey if you ever felt like shouting out for Arthur's sickening case of outright mad injustice (wanna navigate the process of rotting your sibling alive? FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE, exclusive step-by-step tutorial) - it's the time to do just that! I guess I need me a fix-it continuation (and not the one about the watchman, I doubt whether I should read that one?), a fanmade continuation where Scout saves Arthur.
No need for logic, or laws, or prejudices, just a fanmade remedy, anything to quell this atrocity's blinding light of agony; 'The Tombs of Atuan' with a highly toxic twist in the characters' surroundings, revised into the unmagical mundane pit of madness, and a miracle of salvation somewhere over there in the restless reader's mind.
I get all the reasons why we could never get a scenario like this from the author herself, so were the days, my friend, those were the days, but a girl can dream, huh, to meditate on a therapy from this horror of a side-story within a story.