Furthermore, the social aspects of a family is put to the test when a relative commits a crime. The people of the town begin to question the authority a family holds, if they had anything to do with a crime and this can be negative to a reputation. Also, the family itself is put under an increased amount of stress then before the crime. In The Farm, Tilde lost her sense of reality and blamed Chris for murder and sex crimes. For Chris, it is very difficult to deal with the fact that Tilde can ever believe that he would do something so horrible. He lost a lot of weight and, “Up close [Daniel] saw how lost [Chris] was, incomplete without [Daniel’s] mum,” (Smith 291). Also, Daniel has to witness his perfect family fall apart in a matter of hours.