Chris’s Diary – The day after the end of the play

Dear Diary,

Yesterday, a terrible tragedy happened. My beloved father committed suicide after hearing the news about Larry, and left me an orphaned.

I feel awful for not being able to stop my father from committing this dreadful act, or telling him how much I love him and appreciate everything he has done for me. I know I haven’t showed him how much I respect and appreciate him. If I could, I would tell him that he was my role model, an infallible man I admired and looked up to. I know that everything he did was for the sake of the family. However, I can’t accept the fact that he knowingly shipped cracked cylinder heads that caused the death of 21 pilots.

I never thought that he was going to take his own life. I really believed he understood the monstrosity of his crime and was

willing to pay for it. I never thought, for even a second ,that he was going to find a fitting punishment for his crime – death penalty.

My mother is broken. She feels guilty for his death because she has always told him how Larry is important to her, but she forgot to tell him that he is important to her too. Ann keeps telling me that it is not my fault that he killed himself and that I should move on with my life and marry her. But I can’t do that because deep in my hart I feel that if I marry her, she will always resent me and hold a grudge against me because her father remained in jail and mine didn’t

Father, I am asking for your forgiveness. I didn’t mean to give you the feeling that you must punish yourself so severely. I only wanted to make you understand that a person should have integrity and show responsibility to the society he lives in.

I miss you father.