Personal response

In the book “An Enemy of the People” my overall feelings for the book is completely mixed between characters. My feelings towards Dr. Stockmann is that he is a good person trying to do the right thing for the town and the baths. On the contrary my respect for Peter, is not that much because he knows that the report on the baths is true, he just doesn’t want to admit it. I agree with what Thomas says about the compact majority about them being fools and uneducated. I feel very bad for Thomas because everyone was on his side, but then suddenly Aslaksen and Hovstad support Peter instead of Thomas, because Peter convinced them that the report was not true. Thomas’s whole family I had a lot of respect for, Peter has treated his brother with no respect. If that was me in all the bad situations Thomas has been, I would have probably punched him in the face. Plus not only is his brother against him, in fact the whole population is against him calling him “an enemy of the people” when all Thomas is doing is trying to speak the truth, while the normal towspeople are being lied to.

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