Yes, that's how I see them too. I think Henry and Philip seem more compartmentalized in that their lives are made up of different people and interests that aren't always connected. Henry seems to pick up interests and get really into them and then get interested in something else or be interested in something else too. When Pastor Tim's at the table he asks what baptism's about, when Stan's date's there he asks what EST is about.
His reaction to the video game is interesting too because another kid might have defended himself more boldly by saying "What's the big deal? Nobody was using the game!" But Henry basically defends his intentions, saying nobody was using it, yet cries over the damage to his relationships with other people. He values relationships too much to not care about that, but still thinks his original motivation was valid. Had he not gotten caught I don't think he'd have considered himself as having done anything wrong--and that fits with a lot of the way we seem him talk, actually. More than once when he's prattling on about something he's thinking through whatever was going on for himself even when he's going against the grain to do it.
Paige and Elizabeth both seem to want their lives to be totally consistent with one overriding philosophy. The church/the cause provide the answers to everything and it's difficult for them to relate to people outside of that because people who don't get it are wrong. Which can often require its own mental compromises. I think Elizabeth definitely has a habit of occasionally bending her own inflexible rules by convincing herself that what she wants is different enough to be okay or justified in some way. And I suspect Paige would do the same thing.
Paige's reaction to the revelation was in large part to focus on the things in her own life were lies. With Henry I can see him being very upset at his parents being the bad guys...but I can also see his curiosity winning out.
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Date: 2015-12-15 05:01 pm (UTC)His reaction to the video game is interesting too because another kid might have defended himself more boldly by saying "What's the big deal? Nobody was using the game!" But Henry basically defends his intentions, saying nobody was using it, yet cries over the damage to his relationships with other people. He values relationships too much to not care about that, but still thinks his original motivation was valid. Had he not gotten caught I don't think he'd have considered himself as having done anything wrong--and that fits with a lot of the way we seem him talk, actually. More than once when he's prattling on about something he's thinking through whatever was going on for himself even when he's going against the grain to do it.
Paige and Elizabeth both seem to want their lives to be totally consistent with one overriding philosophy. The church/the cause provide the answers to everything and it's difficult for them to relate to people outside of that because people who don't get it are wrong. Which can often require its own mental compromises. I think Elizabeth definitely has a habit of occasionally bending her own inflexible rules by convincing herself that what she wants is different enough to be okay or justified in some way. And I suspect Paige would do the same thing.
Paige's reaction to the revelation was in large part to focus on the things in her own life were lies. With Henry I can see him being very upset at his parents being the bad guys...but I can also see his curiosity winning out.