Blog Post Week 8 Jebediah Pritchard

Blog Post Week 8 Jebediah Pritchard(responded to Ashley Dillon)

Everyone has a mother and a father, this is biology.
In Catholic Ireland at the time of the story, your parents
had to be married for you to be a legitimate child. If you were
conceived outside of the union of marriage, you are a bastard child.
Which is what Frank learns that he indeed is , a bastard child.
These vital lessons told to him by Mikey. Religious atonement, it seems
is the only way to prevent the soul in such a case from eternal damnation,
for as was posed at the time by the Catholics, a life in Limbo, a now defunct
idea within the hierarchy of Catholicism. The Catholics untimely admitted that they made up Limbo.
Rather like selling indulgences, as Frank can perhaps, through ritualistic purification
save his soul from Limbo and hell. This is a sick and depraved atmosphere for one to live.
An atmosphere of dark clouds of doom and fear, fear that will subside only with
proper adherence to Catholic Rites. It is really an atmosphere of damnation.
How does one stay positive in such an atmosphere?

Response to Ashley Dillon

There were a larger number of posts available in the capital(London) than in Erie. So
moving to England does make sense. I think that the dad does not send money back
because he disassociates , mentally and physically from his family. Frank's family has a
hard lot, this does not mean that Frank's dad has an easy on in England. It is hard to predict
what one would do in such a circumstance, saying that he was bad for doing X, must be viewed,
to a degree, within the context of the situation.