![]() However, is it possible that in trying to be empathic, we risk inwardly accepting an incomplete or incorrectly nuanced version of the truth? Empathy is good, and it is right to correctly name crime and mistreatment. We hear how people are mistreated, and we lose sight of the humanness of the one who has done wrong. We read a newspaper article about a crime that was committed, and we caricaturize the accused into a cruel villain. Your friends share a story of how someone was rude to them, and you share their anger at the perceived transgressor. There is, perhaps, a human tendency to take sides. ![]() When Lucy is around four years old, Hannah comes to believe that Lucy is her daughter, and she pursues custody of her. He must try to create a course of action that will not harm Isabel, Lucy, or Hannah. Now faced with the very real consequences of his earlier decision, Tom must work to answer a seemingly impossible question. From a distance, he sees her grief, as Hannah believes that both her husband and her infant daughter were lost at sea and never recovered. While the baby is still quite young, Tom learns that the baby’s mother is Hannah, a resident of his wife’s hometown. They name the baby Lucy and begin to raise her as their own. Tom reluctantly goes along with Isabel’s wishes. Isabel encourages Tom not to report this finding she and Tom can raise the baby as their own. In the boat, Tom and Isabel find a crying baby and her deceased father. Shortly after the second one, a boat washes ashore near the lighthouse. Their happy life is rocked by two miscarriages. He marries Isabel during one of his visits to a nearby community, and then the two of them live together miles from anyone else. Tom is a veteran who, upon his return from the war, seeks solitude by becoming the keeper of a remote lighthouse. The Light Between Oceans is set in post-World War I Australia. It’s certainly a departure from the animated kids’ films that make up the bulk of my reviews on Adoption at the Movies. I recently had the opportunity to review The Light Between Oceans. ![]()
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