Connections

As I watched a movie tonight, The Cider House Rules directed by Lasse Hallström, I came to realize there is a clear relationship with the book we are reading, Invisible Man. As an orphan, Homer Wells was raised by a doctor, he lives his entire life with them so he has some medical experience. Homer gets tired of the medical practices that are being done by the doctor (abortions), so he decides to leave. 


As he will work picking up apples, he will live in a house of black people, they all work with apples, however when it is out of season all of them except Homer leave for vacations. After some time they come back and Homer figures out Rose, the only female that lives in the house is pregnant. Eventually Homer tells a female friend of his and she comes to him saying that Rose (the father of female Rose) is the father of the baby. This directly relates to Trueblood´s relationship with his daughter. Both of the men got their daughter pregnant. At the start, Mr. Rose denies it but when he is told Rose is pregnant Homer does an abortion on Rose.