If it doesn’t work out, it is okay.
In spite of her youth, Molly is rather disappointed in her life and people who come and go. She doesn’t let herself dream in order to avoid bitter disillusionment. Molly even develops a certain kind of philosophy which is based on indifference. She says, ‘if it doesn’t work out, it is okay” and she means it. After all those tragedies, tears and years of loneliness, this teenage girl knows that she is strong enough to cope with any challenge this life has in store for her.
How can I move forward even a step without tamping down the despair I feel?
One day Niamh had a big – although not a very happy – family and was surrounded by those, who were dear to her. When the fire took their lives, she became an orphan in the country where she had neither relatives nor friends. That tragedy affected her. Every time she closed her eyes, she heard “Maisie’s cries and Mam’s screams”. She asked herself how she could “move forward even a step without tamping down the despair” she felt and couldn’t find an answer. All her life became evidence that a person could continue living even after the biggest tragedies.
The word is not a perfect place, and when we are dependent on the charity of others, we are not always in a position to complain.
Mr. Sorenson is supposed to take interest in lives of children his organization protects. However, he is not a very diligent worker, for he sees Niamh, who is starved, dirty, exhausted and almost raped, and doesn’t think that all her misfortunes are worthy his time. He says, “the word is not a perfect place, and when we are dependent on the charity of others, we are not always in a position to complain”. According to him, children who can’t take care about themselves yet, shouldn’t bother him with their whining. He is one of those social workers, who only pretend to do their job, but in fact do nothing.
