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Summary: The Guilty Of Father Flynn

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Father Flynn is guilty of pedophilia. Point 1: the first reason is Father Flynn was only favoring Donald and taking him to the rectory alone. data/evidence: in the book (Shanley, 2004, p.25) it is mentioned that since Donald is the only negro student in the school Father Flynn took him “under his wing”, such as hes isolated and the “Black sheep of the group” and is usually the ones the wolf goes for, Sister James says that one day after having a talk with Father Flynn, Donald came into the class room and he looked frightened and he just laid his head on his desk in a peculiar way and Sister James also mentions This shows that Father Flynn is taking advantage of Donald in ways no adult should, such as the alone time with him in a locked and …show more content…

The second reason is that Father Flynn got defensive when the sister brought up the fact that he was favoring Donald and Donald wasn't acting like himself anymore. data/evidence: in act 5 (Shanley, 2004, p.28) Father Flynn walks in to Sister Aloysius’ office and has a small conversion between each other while waiting for Sister James to enter and once Sister James walks in, Sister Aloysius proceeds to bring up the Christmas play they have every year and asks Father Flynn what he thinks they should sing such as “it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas” or “frosty the snowman” then as the conversation continues (Shanley, and Father Flynn says they'll have tryouts to figure out who they will pick for the part, but Sister Aloysius seems like he may just favorite Donald, Sister Aloysius also mentions that they should be careful on where they put Donald in the pageant because of the color of his skin and Father Flynn just says that they'll treat him like any other boy in the school and Sister Aloysius brings up that Father Flynn favors Donald and mentions the private meeting with him in the rectory a week ago ( up what was happening in the moment and proceeds to ask the Sisters how Donald was “acting” differently, then says he starts to feel uncomfortable with the subject based off the way the Sister Aloysius was speaking to

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