Summary Of Gone Baby Gone

A white crime, a moral predicament

Making decisions, it means to dislocate yourself from the destiny, throwing yourself into the unknown. Making every single decision is painful. Patrick has been stuck in an moral predicament. Finally he made a decision, and he is not sure if it is right to do so or not. Maybe he thinks that it is more right than wrong. The story emphasizes the missing child Amanda by focusing on the chaotic society of Boston. This novel introduces a shocking answer at the end. Precisely, a question. When facing these kind of problems, what decision should be taken?

Dekalog by Kryzysztof Kieslowski, speaks a story of an old doctor who puts himself and the others into a dilemma situation. Just like how Jack Doyle ended up in

At first he saw how regretful Helena was in part II of the book: “ I’d do it all differently,” she said, “if I could, I’d...I’d never let her out of my sight”(page 314, Gone Baby Gone). This may be the reason why Patrick sends Amanda back to her unqualified mother resolutely. He saw how happy Amanda was with Tricia Doyle; he saw how Angie’s emotion changes from begging to raging; he even saw Broussard’s death. Isn’t this all enough to pull him back from his childish thoughts? His arrogant and conceit didn’t give him what he hoped for, did not make Helena a mature and responsible mother afterwards. Perhaps this is his biggest punishment for the rest of his

Patrick(Points at the doll): Is that Mirabelle?

Amanda: Annabelle.

Patrick’s smile has frozen at that moment. He understood, at that time, all the people who came to “help”, all the news reporters, all the neighbors, all the polices, and all audiences from all over the country, including Patrick himself, everyone who says they care and want to save Amanda, got this doll’s name wrong since the beginning.

Did they really came for her? Did they really care about her? Did they really loved her?

The one who truly loved her, is the one who sacrifices everything. One of them left her loved one; one of them got thrown in the jail; one of them lost her husband and moved out of that community, and one of them died. All this, is because of Patrick’s decision.

The decision he made, is it for her or for himself? Just like he never knew the doll’s name, he never understood Amanda, and had never stood in her perspective. He found the answer to everything, but filled the answer under the wrong question. Patrick’s logic seems right, but life is a motherfucker, and it doesn’t speak logic. Is doing it right more important than Amanda’s