Why couldn't Louis think about his still living daughter and move on?

"I know this is a horror-movie and I know the feeling of wanting passed away loved ones to return to me. But Louis still had his daughter Ellen to take care off. In real life, people move on and take care of the ones of their kids that are still alive. Ellen was obviously as upset as her parents about Gages death. And yet they didn't seem to care about her. It was all about Gage. I love the book and the movie, but it would have made more sense if Gage was their only child."

It indicated pretty heavily in the novel that Gage was his favorite of the two children, being his son and all, even to the point of putting him on a pedestal with these very fanciful, elaborate dreams and hopes.

Just finished the book and it was more the supernatural draw of the burial ground that got a hold of Louis once he had buried Church there. Jud believes that once you enter it gets a hold of you, and it was the cemetery that made Church go into the street, which then had Jud bring Louis there (Jud had originally buried his dog there), and then it was the power of the cemetery that made Gage get hit by the truck, and so forth. You get Jud's internal dialogue in the book about how he couldn't get himself to stay awake.

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I think that Louis really did go insane after losing Gage; he was not thinking properly when he took his son up to the 'sour earth' to bury him; that's why Jud was feeling so guilty. Jud wanted to pass the secret on, when it was just a dead cat - but when Gage was killed, he realized what a horrible possibility he had opened up, for Louis.

- What are you gonna do, when the world catches on?

Really not trying to be glib, but are you a parent? Read the book before you become a parent and after. The book is much, much more horrific when you are a parent because the grief would be unimaginable.

I read the book but watching the film I didn't get why the whole thing came about. Why did the old man have him bury the cat there knowing what would happen? Now if the old man had told him to bury the cat where the other pets were but Pascow's ghost told him to go to the Indian burial ground-that would have made more sense. Then again it made no sense why Pascow sought him out and showed him the burial ground in the first place.

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It's like the evil of the burial ground gets hold of you and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do.

They kind of put the little girl,Ellie, on the backburner