If something that was truly loved was stolen, is it wrong to want it back? If this something was really a someone taken by the hands of some individual, is it justified to seek revenge to make amends? Revenge tends to create a cycle of loss and hatred but when the life of a loved one is on the line, these details seem unimportant. In Will Ferguson’s 419, it is expressed that humans react differently to the same type of emotional trauma. However one may react, there is a motive sometimes hidden within those affected by the loss for vengeance. This motive grows in strength with the right amount of emotional attachment. Years spent together with a loved one tends to wear down emotional attachment slowly, causing a loss of interest, which in turn …show more content…
Curtis has spent so many years with Henry that her love for him had become part of a routine and eventually boring. However, money will not lose its value and so the loss of money accompanied wither her husband’s death, to her, seemed to be the greater loss. When Mrs. Curtis discovered her negative balance at the bank, she was utterly disgusted with the burden of debt her husband had left her to deal with: “‘What do these parentheses mean?’ she asked, though she already had a sickened inkling” (Ferguson, 44). Her sickened feeling indicates her degree of disgust and that she was more shaken by the loss than she was sad about her husband’s death. Mrs. Curtis’s lack of love for Henry gave her absolutely no motivation to seek revenge. Her mediocre feelings for Henry were revealed when Sergeant Brisebois came to console the Curtis family, but instead Mrs. Curtis impudently apologizes for the trouble the detective has to go through for the mistake of her husband: "It must be very difficult for you, dealing with this sort of thing every day. I'm so sorry.” (Ferguson, 20). Apologizing this way for Henry’s mistake instead of grieving shows that Mrs. Curtis was not surprised he got himself into a mess like this and that she has no intentions of pursuing the case due to the lack of emotional attachment between the two. The secrecy between the couple when Henry was dealing with the large sum proves that they have little to no trust in one another and that it is not …show more content…
However, he did not have a strong enough attachment to his father to move past taking out his grief and anger with a little foul language and mischief. Warren was extremely concerned with the situation and wanted to get involved with whoever was responsible for his father’s death: "For Christ's sake, officer. I've watched C.S.I. Can't you run the tires through some sort of database, find these assholes?" (Ferguson, 23). He was very hasty with his desire to catch the criminal meaning he wants a quick solution to the problem because he is uninterested in pursuing this case for too long. He recalls the stories of popular online scambaiters and realizes that scambaiting could be a possible way to lure who was responsible for Henry’s death. He could get his revenge by wasting the scammer’s time with a meaningless pursuit: “I was working with Professor Plum, who was studying the aphrodisiacal effects of zebra hoofs on the wives of British bureaucrats.” (Ferguson, 274). After a few back and forth emails, Warren loses sight of his initial purpose for scambaiting and the motivation for vengeance fades with the introduction of fun mischief. This shows that Warren’s connection with his father was not strong enough for him to pursue the scammer, likely because his father had not made enough of an impact on Warren’s life by not spending