#laylit18 The irony lays in the fact that by giving Adam life, Fiona only prolonged his death. Her desire to keep work and her heart separate, to keep Adam at bay although he was desperate for guidance, to ignore him and pity him ... it killled him. 4that, I cannot pity her much.
#laylit18 Fiona's cowardice in refusing to write a letter to Adam Henry might just kill him... #childrenact I really don't like her anymore. Maybe just me.
#laylit18 Ironic how after her scandalous kiss, she can speak normally with Jack again p183. Does she understand him now or can hse not live with the guilt?
#laylit18 The irony of the kiss is that Fiona refuses to forgive her huzzy when she thinks he's kissing Melanie, but how about her actions? Maybe the judge should rethink her verdict on him.
#laylit18 With Adam reaching for maturity and Fiona reaching for youth, that kiss was one of compromise: each yielded to their desires for 3 seconds, but what did they lose and what did they gain?
#laylit18 I am enthralled by these arguments. Everyone is right in their own sense and everything is true... yet who is more wrong? Will Fiona's past cases affect her decision or will she focus on this case for everything presented?
#laylit18 After reading Grieve's argument, it seems most definitely wise to pause before accepting treatment. However, from a medical standpoint, his life can be saved but he refuses. That is unwise.
#laylit18 pg 65: Fiona says she "no longer has a private life" and "she was ready to be absorbed" - perhaps my judgement that she would be distracted was wrong. Here is a woman with severe discipline and a tangible passion for her job. She won't let her problems get in the way.
#laylit18 In chapter 2, Fiona is confronted with her lack of children and all the decisions that built up to this point. It places me in a position, reading this as a teenager, of forewarning. Like, don't lose sight of time, because its always ahead of you.
According to the Hippocratic Oath: If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life... Thus, which is best, here?
#laylit18 Fiona is haunted by her decision to have Matthew killed so his brother could live. It foreshadows the case that she is about to take on because it mirrors the same decision: life or death? Do you do what is medically necessary to save a patient or do you listen to them
#laylit18 the introduction of Fiona's home conflict ends with the rain stopping and her husband leaving. Perhaps it serves as catharsis, but maybe also as a sign that it is for the best that he leaves. Would he really have an affair if he really loved Fiona?
#laylit18 p5: Interesting how after her husband asks when they last made love, the adjectives for Family Division carry sexual undertones: strange, intimate, exotic.
#laylit18 The run on sentence on page 1 of TCA places the reader in the atmosphere of Fiona's home and gives us a sense of sophistication, yet dreariness: stockinged feet, Renoir lithograph, recessed bookshelves, and of course her position as High Court Judge.
#laylit18 It is interesting how the magistrate and the chaplin later on try to conform M to the mold of all other criminals before him. Even his mother conformed before her death. However, if these men truly wanted to save M, they would accept his individualism and work from