A Couple's Baby In 'Do Not Go Gentle'

In the chapter “Can I get a Witness” as the woman who was eating her lunch at Good Food is waiting for the waitress to return with her credit card, a man walks in with a bomb taped to his chest and it explodes. The woman is already going through issues at home with her husband and her kids who she claims she does not get along with. With this happening, she hopes that her family will think that she died in the bombing and never think to look for her. In the meantime, she meets a man that had approached her to see if she was alright and she immediately begins to fall in lust with him. She ends up leaving with him and going to his house as they talk about their past and life. The conversation does not go so well but they both see each other eye …show more content…
The baby was in the crib and was suffocating between the crib and mattress. The couple would always sit beside his bed and sing honor songs playing their hand drums. They grieved by not naming their baby until he got better which they later named him Abraham. The mother was always sleeping beside her baby. She even got mad at the doctor named Mr. Grief and started fighting him. “My wife and I did not even name our baby. We didn’t want to carry around too much hope…. But my wife and I love our little BabyX and took turns sitting beside his bed and singing to him…. My wife spent more time sleeping than I did. I figure she was sadder because she had carried our baby inside her womb and had memorized the way he moved”. (Alexie,97). The dad went to a toy store that he thought were for babies due to the name of it but then realized that it was a sex toy store. He seen a toy that he really liked and thought it would be a great toy for the baby and decided to use it as a ritual in hopes the baby would return from his coma. The father grieved in trying to keep happy thoughts and bringing joy to the situation with the toy that was called “Chocolate Thunder”. He wanted everyone to be happy and cheerful and not dwell on the …show more content…
His sense of grieving was him being speechless at his father’s funeral. Also, he grieved by not wanting to ever play basketball again because he felt that it would hurt his mother if he did. But he then realized after his father died that he wanted to be “great again” and play basketball the way he used to. “Harrison had gone alone to the neighborhood park to shoot baskets...Frank...grabbed the ball and, left the house, and walked then ran to the neighborhood park... He had not taken a shot in over two decades....He’d given up this game to honor his mother, and now he was reclaiming it to honor his father.” (Alexie,204) He did all he could to be the way he was by going to the gym and having a personal trainer guide him in the right path to be great. But he got addicted to being fit that he then decided not to eat anything at all because he did not ever want to be the way he was before he came up with his idea and commitment. He also grieved by later eating any and everything in sight to better his feelings of worthlessness. He started to feel that things didn’t matter anymore and he could finally just do what he wants to do and be