Finch has brought her through to the end of her season of grief, and has given her beautiful, living things during the cold, barren months. In this moment, when he brings her flowers, they count for more than just pretty flowers on a cold day. He noticed her, looked after her, and sympathized with her. She had seriously struggled to move on, but Finch pushed her to get back to her old self and embrace her life in the world of the living. 285īy the end of the novel, Violet has worked through her grief from the loss of her sister. Finch, you brought me spring.'" Violet Markey, pg. Niven challenges the reader to think about the sincerity of human nature, how it is easy to ignore things that aren't immediately obvious. He's hurting, but no one is sympathetic because it's easy for them to overlook. In this excerpt Finch is wishing that he bore some physical manifestation of his disorder so that the people around him would finally see that he's not making anything up for the sake of attention. They just think he's a troubled kid who needs to get over himself. Because his illness cannot be seen or physically observed in any way by an outsider, his family doesn't believe that he is sick. 15įinch is bipolar, though his diagnosis doesn't come until the end of the novel. "It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them." Theodore Finch, pg.
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