The Lighthouse

The story starts off of him already dreading the fact that he has to live with his mom, who he has resented as a child. The reader of course doesn't know why until the middle of the story, about childhood abuse from her, that caused him to be really sick, that he takes medication every single day of his life, in order to live. Without it, he could die.
Somewhere around the story, three days living with her, and shit going down between the two, as she estranges him, locks him up, and tells neighbors that her son is crazy, he runs out of his medicine and witness his mother throwing his medicine down the toilet his father has mailed to him.
In great anger and fury, he plots to kill his mother before she can kill him. In a bloody struggle, he eventually kills her with a knife, and puts her body in a clothed bag, and hides her body in her closet. In relief, he goes back to his bed, and lays down, accepting his fate to die, because he is out of his medicine, and will soon die painfully in his sleep.
As his eyes are closed, his chest becomes heavy, and he stops breathing. He then decides to open his eyes, and witness in horror that it was his mother sitting on his chest, trying to suffocate him. As he lays dying, he suddenly realized that his mother wasn't plotting to kill him this whole time. It was in fact that his mother was prevent him from taking his medication that was turning him paranoid with schizophrenia, and he realized that all along it was his father who poisoned him with the false medication.
The story ends with him dead and realizing the true terror to his insanity.
Category:Film
Category:East