Facing the Wind
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While I was reading Julie Salamon's Facing the Wind, I was slightly disturbed by how easy it was for Bob to kill all three of his children. He was so calm about killing them and the after shock was not that tremendous for him. After killing his first son, which he was convinced that he was doing the right thing, he calmly killed his next two children. Of course he was crying after killing Bobby but no matter how psychotic a person is, he or she will be hurt by the death of his or her child. There is no doubt that Bob was not killing his family out of anger or hatred, but his motives did bother me. After killing his two children he still was focused on his task. He was not upset enough to stop, which I would assume enough time would show that he had done enough, and he totally consciously called his wife and fooled her into coming home. Once she got home, he took advantage of her trust, as he did with Jessica, and convinced her to close her eyes. He swiftly struck her down with the same baseball bat that had killed all of their children.
Bob's deceit in killing his children troubled me the most...