When Will There Be Good News 5

Reggie realizes that she is sure something happened to Dr. Hunter. Reggie is the only person that really knows Dr. Hunter. Of course Mr. Hunter knows her but not in the same way Reggie does. Reggie and Dr. Hunter spend so much time together, she knows just about everything about Dr. Hunter. When Reggie talks to Inspector Monroe, she thinks Reggie is lying about everything. Reggie brings up that she saved a man at the train crash, and Inspector Monroe thinks she is crazy. After Reggie tells her about everything, saving the man and Dr. Hunter, Inspector Monroe replies, " 'Oh?'...Reggie might as well have played the alien abduction card, because Inspector Monroe couldn't have looked more skeptical if she'd tried"(214). Inspector Monroe doesn't believe a word that Reggie says, and throughout the story she was yawning and being very rude. On the other hand if a grown adult came and told her this she would most likely believe it in an instant. This also proves that Monroe isn't a very trusting person. Monroe doesn't believe her only because Reggie is a young girl (sixteen). She doesn't even give Reggie a chance.

Later, Jackson wakes up in his hospital bed and is suddenly struck with a sense of loneliness. Still, no one had showed up to say they knew him, or wish him well. Judging by the way Jackson was willing to let go of life easily at the train crash, we can tell that he doesn't value life that much. It says that he just wanted to fade away and die. Later he wakes up and Reggie is sitting on his bed talking to him. When he realizes that this girl had saved his life. He starts to value life more. Someone was willing to save his life, that made him think that he was worth it. He then thinks, "He would look at everything differently from now on. The re-born bit had finally kicked in. He was a new Jackson. Alleluia"(248). Jackson is now going to live life. He feels like a new person now that he has been saved. He felt as though he had been reborn. At the train crash he felt as though he had died and then come back to life when this young girl saved him. He has a whole new look at life. Reggie says she will come back to visit him. When Reggie says this, Jackson is happy, she is like the daughter he never had. For Reggie, Jackson is like her father figure she never really had.