Status Updates From This Brutal House

So I was right; a gun backfired. It was nice hearing about the mothers and their excitement over the prison custard but it was also uncomfortable reading about their humiliation and being stripped of their identities. Teddy was supposed to good and was supposed to be their backbone, but he failed them. And even though there was no justice for the missing children, the Mothers have become patron saints.

I’m worried about Teddy and the gun. His voice and narration whilst drunk, wandering the streets added a more truthful and direct tone from his character but involving a gun (unidentified too) is very dangerous and could backfire. I hope the Mothers’ efforts don’t go to waste.

Teddy’s reunion with some of the other people he grew up with and how they criticise the Mothers. It’s been nice seeing the story from Teddy’s perspective after the introduction of the situation from the Mothers. He does so much for them and his community whilst wearing himself out.

The police dehumanising, accusing, mocking. Continuous descriptions and high tension. Teddy fighting back, angry, the first time he’s not been meek or sheepish in his life. How he searches for her in every stranger and at every street corner. The irony that the police sound just like them when they talk.