After reading the play and watching it at the school I really understood it better. I realize that Treves was trying to help John Merrick but in ways I would say it benefitted him and in other ways things didn't change. Treves was mostly concerned about helping John by not advertising him as the "Freak Show". The first night John spent in the hospital and was in the bathtub Treves was talking to him asking John if he knew what home was. John said he's never had a home before. Treves told John that this is his home now and he can stay as long as he wants. The thing I don’t agree about Treves is that he still yet let’s all these people come in to see John and they pretend to be his friend. These entire guest you can call them just want to tell more people about John and then they act like they care and say they want to help but really all their doing is taking a look at him. For example during Christmas when they all came with lame gifts like the queen and her picture of herself, John probably doesn’t care about that. In the end it all boils down to people still thinking John is a “Freak show” and is using him as one. Another example is when those boys sneak in and snicker and make fun of him. That’s wrong and something should have been done with those two kids so that it never happened again.
Treves finally realizes or thinks that in the end he wonders if what he had done was really helpful toward John. In my opinion it was good that John got to experience some love and care that Treves and the others gave him. Like Mrs. Kendell caring that John wanted to see a woman and her showing him. However, like I stated already John never really quit being the freak show and in my opinion that was the whole point of him going to a facility where he could seek help. So I think they should have just let John be in his room and only Treves should have been the one doing the visiting.
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