Candy

“But explanations don’t change anything, do they? They don’t make you feel any better. You either like something or you don’t, and if you don’t like it, then knowing why it happens doesn’t make any difference – its still going to happen and you’re still not going to like it, so what’s the point?” (Page 59)

In this passage Joe is talking about how he felt when his mom and dad get a divorce. His parents are still seeing each other even after the divorce. To Joe it seems as if his mom wanted a divorce from her own kids instead of his dad. The quote said by his mom, “I don’t want to share you with anyone,” means that she couldn’t stand seeing her kids with their own dad and she needed him to her self which makes her selfish. After the divorce her parents still go see each other but his mom didn’t come visit them. Even though Joe knew that his mom only wanted to get away from his sister and himself didn’t really make a difference because he knew it was bound to happen anyways if though he didn’t like it. In my perspective I think that everyone has gotten explanations that they have liked and some they haven’t liked. Everyone knows there are going to be things are going to happen even though they don’t want them to but no one can stop that from happening. When parents get divorced the kids know why it happened but they still can’t do anything about it to make it stop. Yes, there are going to be things that we might be able to stop from happening but also there also are going to be things that we can’t stop but we still have to keep moving on with our life. We can’t just be down for something we don’t want to happen. The connection I have made with this passage that makes me understand more about the book is that Joe learned how to move on after accepting the truth about his parents. Another connection in the book with this passage is when Joe meets Candy for the first time. After knowing she was a prostitute he still wanted to see her. Joe didn’t like thinking of Candy as a prostitute but as someone he has a lot of feelings for. In this case I think Joe is going to start understanding who Candy really is and try to help her out of this.