Joseph LaBoy
September 28, 2009
English IV
Mr. Hessert

There are a few images that mean a lot in this chapter. The one when Dr. Manhattan is thinking back at the time when he is in the bar with Eddie Blake and he shoots the pregnant lady. Dr. Manhattan looks down at the dead woman's body with his hand on his chin (page 15). Then the picture next to it is when they are back at the funeral, Mr. Manhattan is looking at Eddie's casket the same way. The next image is the one when Night Owl is remembering. At that time there was a large riot because the people did not want the watchmen to be around anymore (page 16). The comedian had thrown a grenade at the crowd of people because he was “tired” of everyone.
I feel this is important because it shows Mr. Manhattan not understanding human emotions like everyone else does. It tells us that he is trying to understand emotions as best as he can. But it also tells how Blake is really like. Before Dr. Manhattan looks down at the dead lady, and Blake is so worried about himself and does not care about what he had just done. Blake tells Dr. Manhattan that Dr. Manhattan could have prevented it and saved the lady, but he didn't because he does not care for human feelings and that he is turning into, what the comedian calls him, a flake. On page 16 when Night Owl and The Comedian was at that riot, Blake was being mean to everyone in the crowd and when they were mean to him he tossed a grenade into the crowd trying to clear the streets. And he did not care who he might have hurt or killed.
The last place we encountered something like this was when in the first chapter when Rorschach was talking to Mr. Manhattan at the government base and Rorschach said something to Laurie about rape being a moral lapse and Dr. Manhattan just continued doing what he was doing until Laurie told him to get rid of Rorschach. But this proves that he does not understand how human emotions work and is only doing what he is told to do. It also implies that people do not know that much about their own or other peoples emotions and just help when they are needed.