SimCity and Color TV suggest a modern type of distraction, and perhaps avoidance to growing in responsibility and love. And the father who sold his dream to provide for the family's need, seems to call a man to die to his identity in things and talents for a greater love and faithfulness, no? Does it say "I hear the fathers cry in (or and) the softest sigh..." instead of "farthest cry"? Love was what kept the mother alive when her "fathers" had done something that had made her want to commit suicide. The mother's husband sold his guitar (Gibson 335) and gave up his dream of playing music just so they could pay for the electricity (the electricity of the mothers life and their marriage as well as the electricity bills). The feeling of pain ceases to exist when a particular person is in the presence of whoever is singing. Winning the golden ticket symbolizes a fantasy coming true when someone's love is strong enough to get rid of the pain and fear in another's heart. And when your feeling so pained and hurt, as if you can no longer go on, there is a distant voice that makes you stop and all of a sudden there is reason to stay alive because if you left that person (who is the in voice in your head) behind they wouldn't be the same and their life would be lacking in wholesomeness and true love. When I'm at that low point I