Henry’s Law Henry’s Law is the title of a play written by Stacie Lents, but it stands for a gas law in chemistry formulated by a chemist named William Henry. In this play a character named Sara needs help understanding Henry’s Law and quiet smart kid named Max decides to help her. He gets caught up in a situation that other characters created and he had no control over. There was a chain of events that led up to Max committing suicide. Most of the incidents in this play occurred from assumptions.
Beginning with when Sara and Max were studying, there was a point where they kissed and Max’s sister Annie walks in on them. Then Annie tells Jason which is Sara’s boyfriend that she saw his girlfriend kissing someone else. Jason without knowing for sure who it was said, “I’m gonna kill him” (5.36). Later Annie shows Max a post online which was about him. He had no idea why this was happening but his sister assumed it was Jason. She says “Well, I mean, sure, he started it. I’ll bet that one- wettshirtcontest742- that’s prob’ly him…” (8.25) Max was worried about what others …show more content…
The irony of this situation is stressed by the fact that her husband is a doctor, but he is never referred to as a doctor, rather as a physician. It’s believed that “the significance of this word choice is to emphasize the “physical” focus of doctors at the time during which the story takes place.” (Jake Brannen) An example of how emphasis on the physical, rather than mental, is harmful is when John bans his wife from writing just in case she becomes exhausted and worsen her condition. What’s ironic about that is to her husband, writing is seen as physically exhausting, but the narrator describes the fact that she must be so secretive about it is what tires her the
Beginning with when Sara and Max were studying, there was a point where they kissed and Max’s sister Annie walks in on them. Then Annie tells Jason which is Sara’s boyfriend that she saw his girlfriend kissing someone else. Jason without knowing for sure who it was said, “I’m gonna kill him” (5.36). Later Annie shows Max a post online which was about him. He had no idea why this was happening but his sister assumed it was Jason. She says “Well, I mean, sure, he started it. I’ll bet that one- wettshirtcontest742- that’s prob’ly him…” (8.25) Max was worried about what others …show more content…
The irony of this situation is stressed by the fact that her husband is a doctor, but he is never referred to as a doctor, rather as a physician. It’s believed that “the significance of this word choice is to emphasize the “physical” focus of doctors at the time during which the story takes place.” (Jake Brannen) An example of how emphasis on the physical, rather than mental, is harmful is when John bans his wife from writing just in case she becomes exhausted and worsen her condition. What’s ironic about that is to her husband, writing is seen as physically exhausting, but the narrator describes the fact that she must be so secretive about it is what tires her the