"The Victims"

The Victims in this play, are the children and the wife that is being abused. The line that says "She took it and she took it, in silence, all those years and then." This is showing that she has taken all the beatings from him, when he was completely drunk, and took her beating without any refusal or objection. She said nothing and loved him so much that even the beatings and drunken rampage could not make her break it off with him. Her children were also the other victims in this poem. They are the narrators in the story, explaining how much they wanted their mother to stop this madness and divorce this evil man, their father. In the end she divorces him and he looses everything. When the kids pass the street and find bums, they wait to one day see their father sitting on a side walk begging for money, like their mother once begged for mercy. The victims are the mother and the children of the abusive, distructive, father/husband.