Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of your child you still could in what he had become Lacy was not planning to let go of her son"" (Picoult 125-126).
Lacy was as traumatized by her son's actions as much as anyone else was. Either way, Peter was still her son but his actions made it hard for Lacy to be able to look Peter in the eye at times. However she believes that Peter should be proven guilty as his actions were purely based on what the bullies at school had done to him. On the other hand, a completely different intake on his son, Lewis Houghton, Peter's father, essentially wished death upon his son, "Because I still think, every day, of the drunk who crashed into Joey's car I wished he'd died instead of Joey, how he deserved to die " (Picoult 286). Lewis was referring to Peter when he said ˜he', Lacy was shocked to hear that her husband would say that about their own son, Lacy walked away from Lewis thinking he might just be in anger at the moment because if she were to stay another minute with her husband saying that she would break down. What Lacy and Lewis did not understand about their son was that the silent one is always the one to be suffering the most. .
A sign of being too close to someone and sharing everything is not always the best sign. In this case, Peter and his father, Lewis, were very close when Peter was a little boy. Lewis would always take Peter out to hunt. He showed him all the different guns there was. "It seemed as if Peter had been waiting all fall for this weekend. He has been reading up on the rifle his father was going to let him use " (Picoult 156). This comes to show how ever since Peter was young he was interested in guns and knowing about them. The real question is, why? The only reason Peter got into the habit of researching guns, and precisely how to use them was due to his father. It is debatable to say that his father was the cause of Peter growing up like this.