Product Of A Murderer

I was reading Ellen Foster and I got to a point where I nearly choked on the mozzarella stick I was eating. While at her mother's funeral, she noted how the preacher immediately went to talking about how Ellen's mother would be in "green valleys and the streets of silver and gold" instead of stating how Ellen's mother had killed herself and by doing so committed a sin. This shocked me, to say the very least, that this would be the first thing on a 9 year old's mind whose mother just passed away tragically. It became clear to me, if it wasn't clear already, that there was an extreme lack of empathy and just overall pity in Ellen's life. Not only does her father abuse Ellen, which would lead her to believe that sympathy is irrelevant, but her grandmother does as well. Ellen's grandmother acts as though she doesn't exist and seems to value her materialistic lifestyle more than her family. Ellen's teachers as well seem to have the same "Ellen needs to sympathy" attitude. One of her teachers brings Ellen to the library and asks about her mother, even though she already knows. Although this event occurs later in the book, Ellen knows that the teacher knows what happened, and the teacher just wants to use Ellen as a future sob story. Inferring this has been going on throughout Ellen's entire life, it explains why Ellen knows what is going on during the funeral and yet is not upset by the events taking place. She has had to grow up faster than a 9 year old should, and this shows throughout her emotions (or lack thereof) during the whole funeral ordeal.

Because I think we can all agree Wednesday Adams is a little emotionless