And we\u2019re finally here! The last installment of this wild, wild ride!<\/p>\n
Deanna called it an early Thanksgiving dinner. She and her children were free, at least for now, from any legal attack. She wanted to celebrate with about forty of her closest friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh,\u00a0Deanna.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nDo I even have<\/em> forty close friends? Don\u2019t get me wrong, I have lots of friends\u2014I\u2019m just not sure that there are forty<\/em> that I would call \u201cclose.\u201d But Deanna is an extrovert. She throws large parties and doesn\u2019t take no for an answer.<\/p>\nSpeaking of which\u2014Deanna never did face consequences for spanking Layton. We were never told whether Layton lied when his Guardian Ad Litem, April Hennessey, next called to check in with him. He\u2019d worried about what he would say to her, after Deanna spanked him. He told Deanna that Ms. Hennessey would ask, and she said not to say anything until she talked to Cooper about it\u2014which she seemingly never did. I think Farris forgot entirely about that plot point.<\/p>\n
Jeanne helps Deanna make the Thanksgiving dinner double as a surprise wedding shower for Cooper and Laura. This seems like a somewhat odd choice\u2014combining two completely different events like this\u2014but then, this entire book<\/em> is odd. (I was about to note that Laura probably has friends Deanna doesn\u2019t know that she would want at her wedding shower\u2014compounding the weirdness\u2014but then I remembered that Deanna appears to be Laura\u2019s one and only friend.)<\/p>\nThe couple got more serving dishes than they would ever need and not nearly enough wrenches and pliers, Cooper observed quietly to Rick when the women weren\u2019t listening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Haha! Gender roles! So funny!<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll spare you the rest, except in summary. After the wedding shower they turn on\u00a0Politics & Hollywood\u00a0<\/em>to watch Jody Easler. Weird, right? Farris tells us that Cooper found Jody a church out in California, and that she\u2019s now in \u201ca strong home Bible study program.\u201d\u00a0Cool cool cool.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nWait wait what. Ok, I have<\/em> to quote this bit:<\/p>\nJust after the show, Jody called Deanna\u2019s home as planned. Deanna and Jeanne both got on the phone to personally thank her for sacrificing her career for the good of their children and the good of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Can I pummel something? I would like to pummel something.<\/p>\n
First of all, Jody does still\u00a0have<\/em> a career. Farris doesn\u2019t seem to think that being a TV host is an actual, you know, job<\/em>. Laura gets on the phone and tells Jody how \u201chilarious\u201d she was on that evening\u2019s show. Everything about this is just so demeaning. It\u2019s like they think she\u2019s just putting on makeup and smiling.<\/p>\nSecond, though\u2014and more importantly\u2014Jody didn\u2019t have to give up her career to turn against the committee.\u00a0<\/em>She could have stayed on the committee. She could have gone before the Senate and revealed everything that happened. She could have led a push for the U.S. to leave the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, given the actions of the committee.\u00a0She could have continued her life\u2019s work of advocating for children\u2019s rights, within the U.S.<\/p>\nIn addition to telling Jody how\u00a0hilarious\u00a0<\/em>she was, Laura also asks Jody to come to her wedding and be a bridesmaid. So, that happened. (That reminds me\u2014is there going to be paparazzi at this wedding, or has the news lost interest?)<\/p>\nScene change! We\u2019re now in Switzerland. OH MY GOSH. Kadar addresses Nora Stoddard \u201cAmbassador Stoddard.\u201d\u00a0This is not how this works.\u00a0<\/em>There is one ambassador to the U.N. One<\/em>. It would not<\/em> be someone focused specifically on children\u2019s rights, and the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. would not<\/em> be the expert who serves on the U.N. Committee on the Rights on the Child. Regardless of\u00a0everything wrong here,\u00a0<\/em>the import is that Nora has stepped into Jody\u2019s old position.<\/p>\nNora says they\u2019ve lined up a whole list of children\u2019s rights cases, spanning from Wisconsin to California to South Carolina to Florida to Massachusetts, and that, with a new justice safely on the Supreme Court\u2014the congressman the president picked\u2014they\u2019re going to pursue them all. Presumably, the U.S. Commission on Children will be arguing the cases this time. The cases they\u2019ve selected? Another spanking one, another homeschooling one, and another sex education one\u2014but also one on \u201cthe incarceration of juvenile offenders\u201d and \u201cthe failure to spend enough on children\u2019s health issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe we can have them all wrapped up well before the 2006 election cycle,\u201d Stoddard said\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy is that important?\u201d Hua Zhuan, the committee member from China asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Nora explains that an election can change a lot. \u201cIf we lose our pro-treaty majority, we are dead in the water,\u201d she says. She mentions that her department could be defunded, which seems like the least of their worries\u2014can\u2019t the Senate un-ratify the treaty?<\/p>\n
\u201cOne election can change all that?\u201d Hua Zhuang continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the United States, one election can change everything.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The end.<\/p>\n
I could probably go on with end-of-book musings for a while, but I do think it\u2019s worth mentioning that both Jody and Kadar, as characters, raise questions for me about Farris\u2019 understanding of the \u201cother side.\u201d Neither of them acts in ways that sense. Kadar is supposed to not actually care about kids at all. She only cares about power. Okay, fine. But she also has people followed, shot at, and assassinated willy nilly, and yet\u00a0she is still the chair of the committee.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nNo really\u2014how is Kadar not in\u00a0jail?\u00a0<\/em>Did Jody not tell anyone what happened? One would think that her on-air disclosure about Kadar\u2019s plan to blackmail Cooper would have been enough to sink Kadar. And if not that, surely the Loundoun County police wouldn\u2019t have not<\/em> reported an attempted assassination on their highway to someone higher up.<\/p>\nAs for Jody\u2014her transformation makes no sense. Someone who has spent their life fighting for children\u2019s rights isn\u2019t going to just drop it to become the TV host on a completely unrelated television program.<\/p>\n
None of their actions actually made sense<\/em>.<\/p>\nSo. Next week! Next week I\u2019m going to start reviewing Janette Oke\u2019s\u00a0Love Comes Softly.\u00a0<\/em>I\u2019m not going to go chapter by chapter, though. I just reread the whole book over the past few days, and I think it\u2019ll be conducive to much<\/em> more summary, and maybe a totally of eight or ten installments. It\u2019s far, far less objectionable than Francine Rivers\u2019\u00a0Voice in the Wind, <\/em>and\u00a0it\u2019s much better written than anything else we\u2019ve reviewed. It also has a wide evangelical readership and fan base.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s it for Farris. See you next week!<\/p>\n
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