Also, shouldn't the long digression about Harry Potter's self-esteem be somewhere else?
To cast aside fear and regret. To do the deed at hand.
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What if the person who does the slapping actually doesn't want to have slapped the person or regretted it immediately afterward and attempts to apologize? What if they were genuinely upset by the fact that they had hit the person they were talking to? For example, with the argument between Darry and Ponyboy in the Outsiders. During it Darry slaps Ponyboy and almost immediately starts to apologize before Ponyboy runs away. Or in Pay It Forward, practically the same thing between Trevor and his mother. Another example, I think, would be from Midori Days. In Chapter 19, the character Shiori is introduced. During the chapter, her step mother is also introduced. It wasn't really an argument, just Shiori verbally whaling on her step mother, who truly cares about her. At some point, Shiori shouts at her that she could never be her mother, stating "I only have one mom!! And you're not her!!" After a little while more, she finally slaps Shiori, looking, at the moment, very angry. Then she starts crying, heartbroken that she doesn't understand that she cares about her. Afterward, Seiji tells her that she does care about her, otherwise she wouldn't have cried or gotten angry. Would THAT count as a "Why Did You Make Me Hit You" moment, or would it be something else? I know the first two examples are probably something else entirely, but I'm not sure about the LAST one.
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Some of these examples are outright bewildering, and there's a Discussion in the Main Page with the Desperate Housewives examples. I don't know enough about the show to attempt fixing it... Please help!
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