Journey to Redemption in 'Jesus’ Son'

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Redemption comes at a Price! Though the narrator of Jesus’ Son is a drug addict and shows no remorse for his actions while displaying violent behavior throughout the book, I believe he is on his way to redemption for the occurrences in which he endured through pain and suffering towards others and himself. Redemption is, “the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil”. Per Mark Ian Thomas Robson, Robson says, “God remembers what Saint Peter did, but it is not Saint Peter’s real actions and personhood which are the subject of God’s attentions, but a simulacrum—a mere memory or divine representation that was caused by Saint Peter long ago.” Robson is saying that God remembers the actions that Saint Peter did but they are in …show more content…

One relationship that Fuckhead is in is with Michelle. She is a nice lady and loves Fuckhead. After Michelle died Fuckhead was getting to know women but wanted to be more than friends and found them at bars or at least liked the women who drank alcohol. Fuckhead on the other hand is lying to about a vasectomy he had gotten, telling Michelle he cannot have kids and someone else impregnated her. F.H. also wished she was dead. Michelle eventually left Fuckhead for a guy named John Smith and did not want anything to do with Fuckhead. I believe the cause of Michelle’s death from overdosing on pills is Fuckhead. Fuckhead is selfish and Michelle did not want to be with a drug addict, stealer, etc. John Smith died shortly after Michelle died. At the end of Dirty Wedding Chapter, last paragraph, (84) I believe Fuckhead is trying to make a point that it is not his fault that Michelle left him and they didn’t have a baby together and eventually overdosed. I believe Fuckhead is trying to avoid taking responsibility for that his relationship fell apart because of him. Fuckhead is in no shape to be a father. (84) There is no love if a person does not have remorse and Fuckhead proved

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