Assignment 1-Part 1

An eight year old boy witnesses his grandparents in an attempt to kidnap his three year old half sister. The grandparents, devout if misguided Catholics, have an obsessive desire to have the three year old granddaughter be raised in a convent in hopes she will become a nun. The mother supports her parents in heisting the child in the night to a convent three states away.

The father comes home from an extended trip early to catch the grandparents in the act. A fight ensues. The father is getting the worst end of the fight when the eight year old boy takes a chair and knocks his step-grandmother unconcious. The step-grandfather has bhit the father in the head with a club dazing him. Grandfather looks up and the boy is standing in the doorway with a rifle in his hands.

A shot sounds, grandfather falls in a heap dead. Grandmother is concious and turns to grab the gun. Another shot and she is dead.

Father comes to his senses, instructs his wife and boy to tell the same story he does. He takes blame for the deaths to keep judgement from his son. He spends the remainder of his life in prison.

When the boy is grown, married, and has grown children of his own, he has flashbacks and is carried to an insane assylm for a while.

Seemingly well, a few years later, he and his wife take their youngest grandchild as an infant to care for until their daughter can get a grip on life finding herself just divorced with four small children and the new infant.

When the child is two years old, the now grown man, stops taking his medication and starts having flashbacks again.

One morning as his wife puts the biscuits in the stove, she hears an incredibly loud noise. He has shot the baby. He shoots her in the doorway. Realization comes to him in a minute and he commits sucicide.