Tom, in his sweaty t-shirt, sprinted into the police office and announced, “someone help me, my daughter had been kidnapped.”
The closest police officer to the father was Sam Wilson, the chief. Sam confronted Tom and tried to calm him down by sitting him in a chair. When Sam finally got Tom to calm down, he informed him that they can not report a missing child until the child has been missing for 24 hours.
Tom then again began to start raising his voice and screamed, “by then it might already be too late,” while dramatically existing the police office. Tom knew that if he wanted Elizabeth back safely that he had to find her himself. Tom spent several hours driving all around the city looking for his only child until he figured out a way
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Why did you not answer any of my calls or messages if you were able to have your cellular device.”
Before Tom was able to finish his sentence, the police and the kidnapper invaded room 3014.
Tom in even more confusion of the irony of the kidnapper and the police arriving at the same time, pointed at the kidnapper and stated, “arrest this man, for the kidnapping of my daughter.”
The Chief then began to start in the direction of Tom while stating, “Tom Williams you are under arrest for the kidnapping of Sara Scott.”
Tom, while being led into the back of a cop car, in anger stated, “who is Sara Scott? He took my Elizabeth from me!”
By this time, Tom has spent several hours just sitting in a dark, black room with just a table, a small reading lamp, an extra chair and his unanswered questions. The investigators finally walked into the room with Dr. Young, the psychiatrist, where Tom was yelling, “he has my daughter. Don’t let him hurt her.” Dr. Young took the possession of the extra chair and sat in front of Tom.
Dr. Young stated, “if you would like I can explain the confusion in your head.
Tom then stated, “please explain to me why the father gets arrested instead of the kidnapper?”
Dr.Young responded with, “the kidnapper was arrested.”
Tom, in shock, asked, “You got him? Is Elizabeth okay?”
Dr. Young then revealed to Tom that Tom, himself, is the kidnapper and then asked Tom, “Do you remember what happened on the day March 3 in 2004?”
Tom responded to Dr.
As Tom grew older he began to take notice of his surroundings, the people around him and learnt how to see the light at the end of a very dark mental tunnel. Initially Tom didn’t want to come out of ‘the cave’, he wanted to be isolated from the rest of the world. Although as he got back into enjoying playing rugby at his school, Bennies, as well as running with his uncle Brendan, he began to become ‘Tom Brennan again’. When Tom started talking to the girl he liked, Chrissy, he became much more confident and starting to come out of the ‘dark tunnel’ he was seemingly trapped in. Not long after they started to go out with each other, with this completing Tom’s ‘comeback’ to being the person that he wanted to be. ‘…that was the morning Tom Brennan came back, forever.’ The only reason Tom Brennan went away was because of Daniel, his brother, who is not that much older than Tom, decided that driving while heavily intoxicated was a logical thing to
and while Tom Boyd is missing, he tells Kit that he will go find Tom. “We
Burke illustrates Tom’s inner conflict with first-person narration. The guilt he feels over the inactivity he had on the night of the incident, his frustration with Kylie and the added guilt he exhibits because he feels sorry for himself all adds up to his conflicted thoughts. Tom doesn’t know or feel like himself anymore. But Burke brings this to the attention of the reader in a good light when Tom thinks, “But now I knew what I missed most. I missed me, Tom Brennan, and that’s why now I could smile, ‘cause I could see he was coming back.” Thus, when J.C. Burke aptly finishes the book with the line “that was the morning Tom Brennan came back, forever,” the true development in Tom’s character and conflict is shown through the employment of first-person narration. Therefore, J.C. Burke thoroughly addressed the conflict in Tom’s mind as it was overcome in the
The third reason was that Tom was shot. The night that Tom escaped jail, he was
| Tom wants his old life back prior to the accident and he sees the accident as the end of his life as he knew it. He loses his sense of identity and sense of family in particular.Feels guilty and ashamed about the irrevocable consequences his brother’s irresponsibility had for other people and their familiesRetreats into a depressed state which feels empty and black.
back. He wants her to tell Tom that “[she] never loved him” and tried to pull the words out of her
Tom would beat her awful a considerable measure. At the point when Tom educated her regarding his meeting with
Tom’s neglecting manner of Daisy brings out his supercilious manner of feeling superior to others. In another instance, Tom’s supercilious manner is shown once again. In fact, we find out a little secret about Tom’s life. Tom describes a man, named Wilson as, “Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York.
arrived. Later in the investigation police learned from listening to the 911 call that Burke
Q= Why didn't anyone give Tom a call about the situation while he was in prison ? After four years when will he find out ?
Tom Walker sat at his bedside feeling rather melancholy for he had not much to do but be chided at by his notorious witch of a wife. They both lived in their humble abode of an apartment in the middle of a city but they had a sublime view that overlooked the scenery of the domicile's dumpsters. They lived poorly, just barely getting by to afford a couple gallons of gas. Tom grew a hatred for almost everyone around and had only a handful of “friends”, he believed that money was the most valuable and important thing in his life.
to camp. Elizabeth though to herself why didn't she tell the detective, who she was. After
Tom like he is guilty. He refers to Tom as “boy”, even though Tom is an adult. To the jury, this
After receiving the news about the murder, Jimmy explodes with emotions. “I remember, I was more afraid of my little daughter than I ever was of being in prison” (Dennis 34). This quote shows the fatherly love Jimmy had for Katie. It compared the strength Jimmy had through the rough times in jail and how afraid he was of losing Katie. Ultimately, Jimmy follows the wrong path. Jimmy not only fails to find his daughter’s murderer, but he also kills Dave along too. By looking though a psychoanalytic lens, one can interpret Jimmy’s fatherly instincts which are to try to unearth his daughter’s murderer no matter the cost.
Tennessee Williams gives us no indication that Tom's escape from his father, Amanda, Laura, and Jim ever happens - what is most compelling about the play is that Tom passes to the reader and the audience the responsibility of making meaning out of his life.