Topic > Back to May 1937 by Sharon Olds - 696

He knew that those innocent people he was watching would change and be the reason his childhood had not been easy. He wanted to change everything and make them stop. He wanted to go to them and tell them: "you will do things you never imagine you could do, / you will do bad things to children, / you will suffer in ways you have never heard of, / you will want to die” (Ancients 848, 15-19) This shows that her parents betrayed her simply by being together and no longer being innocent. They had changed from how they seemed to be right in front of her; in her eyes they are no longer innocent people who would never hurt anyone. They turn into people who hurt her and do bad things to her bad as a child. Their betrayal was the reason she was faced with her difficult decision. If they had never cheated on her, she would never have wanted to stop them from being together and would never have had the chance to make. this decision Now she has the chance to stop them from coming together and stop everything