GOOD DEEDS / PART FIVE
Jonathan closed the door behind him and headed to the house besides, where the rest of his family was sleeping. He took a big breath and he realized that he was felling as if he hadn’t been breathing for as long as he was inside that room.
Into his family’s house was dark too and the quietness that had been spread all over indicted that nobody was awake. At least that’s what he deemed as a fact until the moment he invaded into his father’s room. Old Joseph was awake, sitting in an imposing chair behind his desk, having an unmoved look in his face like he was expecting that sudden visit.
They talked a lot though Jonathan couldn’t precisely define for how long his father and he were having the bizarre conversation they did. While he was expecting that his father would calm him down as he did many times before, he was now feeling more and more upset and frustrated.
What had Jonathan confronted in his sister’s house was shocking. The sound that made him get into her house was actually coming from a baby- girl, whereas he knew that she was childless after a long time of her being married. In that room he found the two spouses being desperate about not being in position to offer any kind of help to the strange infant who was strolling on the small bed. They explained the unexpected spectacle to him by saying that they had adopted that newborn from a destitute family from the City few weeks before. They also said that the man who made the transaction between them and the poor family told them that if it wasn’t for them, the infant would be sentenced to die because of its family bad condition. Of course, that could be easily regarded as disputed, since they had never met the family and they couldn’t know have known their condition of living for sure.
Apart from that, as they didn’t want their co- peasants to know that they had gone there and that they couldn’t bring to the world a child who would have their own blood, they had planned to keep it as secret between them for as long as Jonathan’s sister would have to pretend that she was pregnant and of course a little time more until no one would have a suspicion that this girl was actually bigger than she was supposed to. However, contrarily to their well-ordered plan that small girl was shaking with ague and it was in desperate need of a specialist’s intervention.
Old Joseph didn’t seem surprised in the hearing of the incidents and he said to his son that he was fully aware of the situation but he thought that the best way to act was to respect their will and stay uninvolved. As he discerned his son’s aversion to his apathy, he tried to make clear to him that it was some time ago since everyone’s manners and customs had started to deviate from the old ones. He referred to the small secrets and some abhorrent behaviors which the ones who were practicing them, were not in position to perceive their harmful effects.
Jonathan heard different stories that night but the one that shook him the most was about his friend Frederick, the man he had the conversation previously that night. Surprised, Jonathan heard his father saying that his old friend had recently judged that his wife needed to be punished because according to his new beliefs she had fell in a great sin and her soul wouldn’t be able to find rest after her death. So, for her own good as Frederick believed, he flagellated her until she lost her senses and all that because she dared to feed their children with pork meat the day it was forbidden by his newly embraced sect.
Despite his father told him many reasons for not to, Jonathan was now in the central square watching the Nolands being gathered in front of him after the hearing of the “double stroke”.
He started talking by saying “I used to think that I know you, but now that I know you’re acts I hardly recognize you.” He talked straight from the shoulder and revealed everyone’s concealed deeds. He said about his sister having secretly adopted a baby- girl in order to save it from poverty, while even the most imbecile man could understand that her true purpose was to fulfill her will to fell like all the other women who had became mothers.
He also said about Frederick exercising slashing upon his wife in order to punish and save her from her sins and about an other man too, who was keeping his children locked inside their house, based ridiculously in his fears and his insecurities that they would get harmed if they would go to play outside as all the other kids did.
He even referred to the man who every winter beginning was rooting up his old neighbor’s exceptional plant, after he had made her believe that it was poisonous, when only it was just that it was a one of its kind and he was only jealous and scared by its beauty and rareness.
In the end Jonathan said that above all he was most disappointed by his father and the way his family had found to slyly dominate in a place such Noland. He then took out of his pocket and showed them the book his grandfather had wrote. The book which when Joseph was still young and idealist, thought that should be disclosed and condemned, but as later years past changed his mind. In the current gathering, Jonathan put the book back in his pocket again and said about it that it was holding the answers to every man’s who wanted to dominate, questions. He declared that having a whole place under your control, maybe it’s for the very best the people who reside there, if you able to control them right of course. And maybe sometimes that’s a vital need for order to go on existing. But no matter what he said, nobody could have the right to do such thing without people be fully aware and agreed with that deed.
Jonathan’s family desire was to maintain Noland in a utopian compared to rest of the world state, so they had chosen to govern the place in an innovative way. They were letting Nolands believe that they were living in vast freedom, which in actual fact they by far didn’t.
Jonathan walked through the crowd but everyone was feeling so lost and so awake in the same time that they were feeling very stood to respond to his presence in any way.
He walked until he reached the Noland borders as he did some time before but now he was facing the outside direction, as the first time he found his self there. His father voice calling him got him out of his thoughts and made him stand for a while and try to see where exactly he was standing.
They both weren’t able to say much. Old Joseph grabbed his son’s arm when the latter tried to step away and cross the border. Joseph’s voice tone sounded stately when he told him that what he was doing was wrong. He told him that there was only one option and this was not to leave. He said that he should go back and start living again with his own name. He almost obliged him to go back and act like being the man with the name Joseph. In truth, he was asking for his own son to become a different person, to become him, as if this was possible for a human to do.
Jonathan was appalled by what he was hearing. His father then said that the Nolands could accept him as being Joseph because they had nothing else to do. They were feeling helpless now and they had no other choice but to force themselves to believe a tremendous lie in order to feel secure again. They needed to forget about the man named Jonathan and they could. Nolands were born under the wings of protection and guidance and weren’t able to go on existing differently.
Joseph was now in the central square looking concerned and submerged in his own thoughts. When the first man who discerned him between the crowd moved near to him and asked him whether to stop rooting his neighbor’s plant up or not, he replied that he was not in position to give answers in any of his questions but he said that he could promise to him and to everybody else that he would try his hardest to make them have more..
End of story
Into his family’s house was dark too and the quietness that had been spread all over indicted that nobody was awake. At least that’s what he deemed as a fact until the moment he invaded into his father’s room. Old Joseph was awake, sitting in an imposing chair behind his desk, having an unmoved look in his face like he was expecting that sudden visit.
They talked a lot though Jonathan couldn’t precisely define for how long his father and he were having the bizarre conversation they did. While he was expecting that his father would calm him down as he did many times before, he was now feeling more and more upset and frustrated.
What had Jonathan confronted in his sister’s house was shocking. The sound that made him get into her house was actually coming from a baby- girl, whereas he knew that she was childless after a long time of her being married. In that room he found the two spouses being desperate about not being in position to offer any kind of help to the strange infant who was strolling on the small bed. They explained the unexpected spectacle to him by saying that they had adopted that newborn from a destitute family from the City few weeks before. They also said that the man who made the transaction between them and the poor family told them that if it wasn’t for them, the infant would be sentenced to die because of its family bad condition. Of course, that could be easily regarded as disputed, since they had never met the family and they couldn’t know have known their condition of living for sure.
Apart from that, as they didn’t want their co- peasants to know that they had gone there and that they couldn’t bring to the world a child who would have their own blood, they had planned to keep it as secret between them for as long as Jonathan’s sister would have to pretend that she was pregnant and of course a little time more until no one would have a suspicion that this girl was actually bigger than she was supposed to. However, contrarily to their well-ordered plan that small girl was shaking with ague and it was in desperate need of a specialist’s intervention.
Old Joseph didn’t seem surprised in the hearing of the incidents and he said to his son that he was fully aware of the situation but he thought that the best way to act was to respect their will and stay uninvolved. As he discerned his son’s aversion to his apathy, he tried to make clear to him that it was some time ago since everyone’s manners and customs had started to deviate from the old ones. He referred to the small secrets and some abhorrent behaviors which the ones who were practicing them, were not in position to perceive their harmful effects.
Jonathan heard different stories that night but the one that shook him the most was about his friend Frederick, the man he had the conversation previously that night. Surprised, Jonathan heard his father saying that his old friend had recently judged that his wife needed to be punished because according to his new beliefs she had fell in a great sin and her soul wouldn’t be able to find rest after her death. So, for her own good as Frederick believed, he flagellated her until she lost her senses and all that because she dared to feed their children with pork meat the day it was forbidden by his newly embraced sect.
Despite his father told him many reasons for not to, Jonathan was now in the central square watching the Nolands being gathered in front of him after the hearing of the “double stroke”.
He started talking by saying “I used to think that I know you, but now that I know you’re acts I hardly recognize you.” He talked straight from the shoulder and revealed everyone’s concealed deeds. He said about his sister having secretly adopted a baby- girl in order to save it from poverty, while even the most imbecile man could understand that her true purpose was to fulfill her will to fell like all the other women who had became mothers.
He also said about Frederick exercising slashing upon his wife in order to punish and save her from her sins and about an other man too, who was keeping his children locked inside their house, based ridiculously in his fears and his insecurities that they would get harmed if they would go to play outside as all the other kids did.
He even referred to the man who every winter beginning was rooting up his old neighbor’s exceptional plant, after he had made her believe that it was poisonous, when only it was just that it was a one of its kind and he was only jealous and scared by its beauty and rareness.
In the end Jonathan said that above all he was most disappointed by his father and the way his family had found to slyly dominate in a place such Noland. He then took out of his pocket and showed them the book his grandfather had wrote. The book which when Joseph was still young and idealist, thought that should be disclosed and condemned, but as later years past changed his mind. In the current gathering, Jonathan put the book back in his pocket again and said about it that it was holding the answers to every man’s who wanted to dominate, questions. He declared that having a whole place under your control, maybe it’s for the very best the people who reside there, if you able to control them right of course. And maybe sometimes that’s a vital need for order to go on existing. But no matter what he said, nobody could have the right to do such thing without people be fully aware and agreed with that deed.
Jonathan’s family desire was to maintain Noland in a utopian compared to rest of the world state, so they had chosen to govern the place in an innovative way. They were letting Nolands believe that they were living in vast freedom, which in actual fact they by far didn’t.
Jonathan walked through the crowd but everyone was feeling so lost and so awake in the same time that they were feeling very stood to respond to his presence in any way.
He walked until he reached the Noland borders as he did some time before but now he was facing the outside direction, as the first time he found his self there. His father voice calling him got him out of his thoughts and made him stand for a while and try to see where exactly he was standing.
They both weren’t able to say much. Old Joseph grabbed his son’s arm when the latter tried to step away and cross the border. Joseph’s voice tone sounded stately when he told him that what he was doing was wrong. He told him that there was only one option and this was not to leave. He said that he should go back and start living again with his own name. He almost obliged him to go back and act like being the man with the name Joseph. In truth, he was asking for his own son to become a different person, to become him, as if this was possible for a human to do.
Jonathan was appalled by what he was hearing. His father then said that the Nolands could accept him as being Joseph because they had nothing else to do. They were feeling helpless now and they had no other choice but to force themselves to believe a tremendous lie in order to feel secure again. They needed to forget about the man named Jonathan and they could. Nolands were born under the wings of protection and guidance and weren’t able to go on existing differently.
Joseph was now in the central square looking concerned and submerged in his own thoughts. When the first man who discerned him between the crowd moved near to him and asked him whether to stop rooting his neighbor’s plant up or not, he replied that he was not in position to give answers in any of his questions but he said that he could promise to him and to everybody else that he would try his hardest to make them have more..
End of story
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