In ,Eppie preferred continuing to stay with Silas Marner instead of living with Godfrey Cass. Do you consider that is a right choice? Give your views.
...to cut off the linen strip which Slias used to tie up her waist in order to forbidden her escape during his weaving. Then she escaped to the small pond and played there joyfully. When Slias found that Eppie was missing, he was very anxious as he afraid that Eppie might fall into the Stone-pit and get drowned. Therefore he stopped his work immediately and found her everywhere until he found that Eppie was playing at the small pound happily. For that reason, we can see that Slias really care about Eppie. In addition, if it was not Slias being her father, Eppie might suffer a lot since most parents punish and beat their children. However, to Eppie, Slias never punished her as he prefer suffering on his own rather than hurting Eppie except the punishment (sent into the coal-hole) after Eppie escaped and played happily at the small pond. However, she regarded it as a game and enjoyed it very much. Hence, there was no punishment to Eppie in general. As Slias had paid so much attention to Eppie, it is absolutely fair that she should stay with Slias in order to have gratitude to him. As Godfrey was Eppie・s real father, to my surprise, he did not take good care to his daughter when she was a child. Sixteen years ago, Godfrey was glad to see that his secret wife Molly died as he thought that she was the obstacle to marry Nancy Lammeter. I think that he is selfish that he wanted to adopt Eppie as he wanted her to be the substitute of his dead baby child. Moreover, he also ignored Eppie・s and Slias・s feeling. It is because Slias would be grief-stricken if Eppie leaves him as she had played an important role of making him...