The Victims

“The Victims” pp. 385-386; *Read “The Victims,” pp. 385-386; Explain exactly who the victims are in this poem and how you know.
1. The victims in this poem are the children of the Mother and Father that are mentioned. Although the children said that they were grinning under their ‘sadness’ I think that the speaker meant the reader to figure out that the children, were actually sad in the end, with both of their parents leaving them, alone and unattended.