Hey Nostradamus! Jason: Part two

In the second part of this section Jason shows more into detail about his current life and what happened the days that followed the massacre. As he continues the letter to his twin nephews he tells them how he received three letters himself, one from each member of Cheryl’s family. The two letters from her parents were similar as the both wrote to Jason in an apologetic manner for not being there to support him after being accused as the "master mind" behind the whole massacre and for not letting him go to Cheryl's funeral. However when Jason reads the letter that Cheryl’s brother Chris wrote to him it contradicts everything that Cheryl’s parents had wrote and Chris tells Jason that he had known what the three shooters were like and knew Jason could not possibly have had any part with them. Suddenly Jason receives a phone call from the hospital that tells him his father Reg is ill. After picking up a couple of items for Reg Jason goes to the hospital and decides to deliver the items personally. Finally Reg and Jason are together in the same room for the first time and Jason confronts his father about his comment after the school massacre about him being a "murder". After a few words Jason leaves because he feels that still his father has not changed. Then, after days of drinking, partying, and blacking out Jason wakes up to find himself in a situation familiar to him before. He is in a “kill or be killed” situation and as he walks along a river to possibly meet his demise when he picks up a rock and is ready to launch it his "opponent”, he realizes that they are the same actions as the day of the massacre. Jason has an epiphany and suddenly feels that all the hate and bitterness from his heart have just left. After the week of black outs Jason reveals a secret to his nephews. He tells them that the letter he is writing to them is important not because they are his nephews but they are secretly his sons. After the death of his brother Kent, his wife Barb was desperately longing to have children. To her is was something that would keep her closer to Kent, since he could not have children Barb asks Jason for the favor and  agreed on the condition that they get married. They go to Vegas again and it seems as if time keeps repeating itself as he is put in similar situations that he had back in 1988.

            In this second part of the chapter I feel that Jason’s life might be changing for the better in ways that besides the obvious epiphany he does not realize. The fact that he had the courage to finally ask Reg about his comment was a turning point because it was not only the first time they really had a conversation in awhile but it was a conversation that I felt allowed them to vent to each other. I also think that despite Jason trying to grow up the opposite of his father he seems to be growing up just like him. Jason refers to God a lot more in the second section and still analyzes some of his situations in terms of religion which I thought was interesting because he had supposedly denounced it. In this second portion I found out the twins are not his nephews but his sons. It was not that much of a shock because I was curious the whole time as to why it was so important to write a letter to his nephews and finally the big secret is revealed. I have a feeling that maybe Reg knows that they are Jason’s sons and not Kent’s because he had said Barb was sneaky and wasn’t the right one for Kent. Maybe he doesn’t like her because he knows the truth.