Disgrace of Humanity

As if this story isn't depressing enough as it is, we find out that the twins die! They die of pneumonia but Oliver dies first. It is at this time the aunt and other relatives shed a single shred of care towards their own family. Why does death bring people closer? Why can't we be close and caring towards each other when we are alive, when it actually matters? I guess though it is natural to be ungrateful and take things for granted because it is so easy to do this and we humanity always falls into the liberation of the easiest route. Aunt Aggie and Angela start crying at the funeral and even the Grandma seems disappointed, which is a lot to say talking about her. She is more angry though then sad, perhaps at herself for not caring enough in the beginning. Grandma felt guilty enough thought that she went and got an apartment for them and paid the first two week's rent. She gave them pots and pans, jam jars, and other things they would need. She warned Angela to tell her husband to get a job and start supporting his family. The family that he threw apart.
The whole family goes down to the IRA to get a special funding to help them with their situation but they are reclined. They had spent their money paying for the bus fare to go all the way to Dublin since they live in Limerick. On the way back disappointed and without any money at all, a police officer decides to help them and lets them stay at a prison cell. This is how low this family has sunk. They have no home or way of getting home that they have to spend their night a place of unwanted criminals. Luckily the men there were kind enough to give them the money for the bus fare for the next day and gave them a warm meal. The children were adored by all the cell mates and police officers there. Although they all got to sleep on the floor, Angela slept on the bench with a blanket underneath her, since she's a woman and that's more respectful.
The point is that the IRA and the relatives are unwilling to help this family, but a bunch of Dublin police officers were happy to jump in and help this family out with food and shelter. Generosity is in everyone, even those you don't expect. It's a disgrace to humanity that we are reluctant to help one another especially when it requires so little of us. Hopefully it won't take a death for each of us to help us realize the value in giving.