“Many Rivers to Cross” is about a daughter that is struggling to financially support her son and herself. She goes to visit her mom and dad one day at their house he found out something tragic had happened. Her father was a mess and told her that he thinks her mom is dead. She had a normal reaction to what most people would say to someone. “What do you mean you think she’s dead”? He said he didn’t know and was a coward, and made his own daughter see if his wife was dead or not. The wife e

If my mother ever died and my dad was that much of a coward not to look for himself, I would not be a happy camper. I would for one be furious at my father for not looking for himself. I would also say to my father are you nuts, for making your own son look. The father in the story also seemed like he refused to call the doctor a couple times until he really saw that his daughter was mad at him. If the father had acted fast he may had been able to save his wives life. If my father ever refused to save my mother from dieing, I would give him a piece of my mind.

The daughter in the story I think acted like any other person would in her situation. Even though, it was the day her mom died, she has the right to fight with her dad. He was being very cruel and selfish. It doesn’t matter if he was acting that way because he was so upset or not. He shouldn’t have acted like that around his own daughter. I wouldn’t want to find my wife dead either, but I would at least have enough guts to see if she is or not. I think that the daughter was implying that her relationship with her mom was much closer then with her dad. I came to this conclusion, when the father didn’t even lend a hug to his daughter when her mother died. I also don’t think that the relationship between the two parents was all that close either. Back in the old days there were couples like this that just stayed together for no apparent reason. There was no such thing as divorce back then.

nded up being dead, which was caused by suicide, I think. The father was then being a jerk, and started talking about money. He said the money is mine and not yours until I die, to his own daughter. His daughter never even said anything about wanting the money in the first place.

I was still wondering how the mother committed suicide, or even if she did commit suicide. If she did commit suicide it must have been a pill or some kind of poison.

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