Forgiveness In Chick's Daughter

Onward, patience from all members is a necessity to inherit absolution. Particularly, in Albom’s novel, Chick’s daughter, Maria, finally forgives Chick’s failures, but this is only done after she is given time and space away from him. At the same time, Chick must be patient in trying to reestablish his relationship with Maria. Chick recalls how the last time he is close to Maria is when she is a teenager and he continues to reminisce, “I had fallen out of my daughter’s life...I had sunk so low I had been banished from her wedding. She [Maria] used to love me, she honestly did. She used to run at me when I came home from work… ‘Maria is ashamed of me,’ I finally mumbled” (Albom 88). Decades later, he finally renews his relationship with Maria
This self-control and restraint ultimately must be in accordance with each other, considering the fact that forgiveness is unattainable if one longs revenge, or if one does not fully comprehend the ramifications of immoral actions. Ultimately, this consensus from both parties is required to accomplish forgiveness. Similarly, in Albom’s novel and in Mandela’s misery during the apartheid, forgiveness is gained in both cases despite reaching an all-time low or breaking point in their lives. In both cases, during their time period of being patient where Chick and Maria are attempting to redeem their relationship, and the length of the apartheid, everyone reaches rock bottom. When Chick discovers that Maria did not invite him to her wedding, he notes that this is his tipping point, which drives him to attempt to commit suicide. Similarly, South Africa faces one of the worst racial segregations of their era, as it is the darkest and most atrocious fraction of the country’s history. Thereupon, the power of unity in forgiveness is displayed because both cases are testaments to how forgiveness is certainly possible in spite of enduring record lows, so long as it is a relational event. Distinctively, the two instances are in positions of varying