Family seperation - Hot seating and role play - I have chosen to do a script interviewing Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons.

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I have chosen to do a script interviewing Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons.

Interviewer: “Mrs Johnstone how did it feel giving up one of your sons?”

Mrs Johnstone: “It felt terrible, and the guilt still hunts me but I did what I thought was right, at least one of my sons would have a successful life.”

Interviewer: “Mrs Lyons how does it feel having to lie to your husband that Edward isn’t really your son”

Mrs Lyons: “I knew my husband wouldn’t agree but this is what I wanted. We brought up Edward as our own and weather or not our blood flows through him Edward is part of the Lyons family.”

Interviewer: “Mrs Lyons how did you feel knowing you where taking away someone’s child and after not letting the true mother see her child”  

Mrs Lyons: “I didn’t take her son away we both agreed on the matter and she had the power to say no in which she did not consider. I had to sack her not for my benefit but for the Childs.”

Interviewer: “Mrs Johnstone do you agree or disagree that if you hadn’t of given up one of your sons their deaths would not have occurred”

Mrs Johnstone: “that’s hard to say that’s a yes and no answer, on earth we are all meant to die and their time was just simply up it was inevitable, but yet the way they died wouldn’t have happened if they knew they where brothers.”    

Evaluation:

This exercise helped me greatly to understand about family separation. By doing this exercise I had a much better understanding of Mrs Lyons and Mrs Johnstone character. This situation is very realistic because a lot of child separations are due to the parents this proves that most separations are from the parent’s decisions. And in this case this is a single parent not being able to cope with more children.

        Mrs Lyons character is very superstitious and manipulative, she could see that Mrs Johnstone was weak and so she took advantage. From this I could see that Mrs Johnstone feels only guilt, and she didn’t have much choice with Mrs Lyons manipulating her.

        This story reminds me of someone I know very well, he was separated from his parent and sister because of a new family member who was married to his mother. His father had left long ago and hadn’t been seen since, and his stepfather didn’t get on with him very well. He and his sister seemed to do everything wrong which leaded to physical contact. Manipulative their mother ended up putting them into care.

        I sympathise with the step father because he clearly is insecure, and his very jealous. He feels that he is superior to the family and over powers them.

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        Family separation seems really depressing because of all the lies that there is. There seems to be so much pain between them, and just feels really horrible altogether. And a lot of the time there’s one parent manipulating another.

Role of the narrator:

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