"I didn’t want to portray the Stantons as wildly dysfunctional, because they’re not, but there is an issue that looms over them, quite realistically: the loss of a young baby boy.
In the book, this is sort of shrugged off, but how can it be? A human being is gone and no one talks about it. So I think a lot of the tension in the family, a lot of the friction, stems from that event. And at a certain point in his life, reaching adolescence, Will is dealing with that problem, drawing the family back together. OK, so he’s saving the world and all its inhabitants at the same time from the universal power of evil, but the way I see it - that’s the easy bit."
As I've said before, I have never read the books, but that makes me want to cry.
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In the book, this is sort of shrugged off, but how can it be? A human being is gone and no one talks about it. So I think a lot of the tension in the family, a lot of the friction, stems from that event. And at a certain point in his life, reaching adolescence, Will is dealing with that problem, drawing the family back together. OK, so he’s saving the world and all its inhabitants at the same time from the universal power of evil, but the way I see it - that’s the easy bit."
As I've said before, I have never read the books, but that makes me want to cry.
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Just kidding, Ma"
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