"The thinking started. Always it started with a single word. Divorce. It was an ugly word, he thought. A tearing, ugly word that meant fights and yelling, lawyers-God, he thought, how he hated lawyers who sat with their comfortable smiles and tried to explain to him in legal terms how all that he lived in was coming apart-and the breaking and shattering of all the solid things. His home, his life-all the solid things. Divorce. A breaking word, an ugly breaking word" (Paulson 2-3).
It's a known fact that about 50% of all marriages end in a divorce. What people tend not to do, is look beyond the numbers and see the total impact. It doesn't only effect the spouses who break up. It effects everyone around them. In Brian's case, his parents had gotten a divorce, and the whole process stuck with him. In fact, if it hadn't been for the divorce, Brian would never have been on the plane that crashed. In addition to being put in that situation, the word haunted Brian. As shown in the quote above, the only thing Brian could think about is the divorce and how hopeless he feels in the whole thing. People make mistakes, so I'm not saying by any means that we should eliminate divorces all together. What I am saying is that people need to do a better job of realizing the impact of their decisions for not only them but the people around them.
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