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Originally Posted by
Merlin1958
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Originally Posted by
Jean
but it wasn't like he chose this, was it?
Well Jean, if you're referring to my post, didn't he have a choice to pull the trigger and kill his Mom? or am I forgetting something? I guess I am due for a re-read, but I lent my reader copy books to a kid I coach in little league.
As I recall it was sort of a reaction scenario, but a choice he made nevertheless.
If we keep to the letter of the book, he didn't realize it was his mother till it was too late, so he didn't actually make a choice to kill
her.
On a more metaphysical plane, well, yes, it was his choice whether or not to let himself be manipulated by the glammer. In this respect, him killing his mother echoes him leaving Susan at the mercy of the mob: both for believing what he was made to believe.