When you become a senior citizen, you dream several dreams about the retirement; time enough to do whatever you want. You hope that the future of your children will be bright – that they will be happy, maybe even just as happy as you feel you have been. You may think that the children would wish the same for yourself, but they do not always wish the best for their parents... Some children might be greedy, en-vious or even that tired of waiting that they would do absolutely everything, just to get their inheritance instantly, even though they would have inherited the money even-tually.
The passengers aboard the cruise ship S.S. Ariel are all senior citizens. (Line 48): Well, yes sir, it's true that you are all aboard the S.S. Ariel; and yes ma'am, it's certainly true that you are all of "retirement age". They are all Americans and have all got ex-pensive cameras and video equipment, ergo; they must all be upper middle class, if not rich. (It also says in the text that they belong to upper middle)
The American senior citizens aboard Ariel are all educated, cultured; al-most everyone. And most importantly they all love their children. These people have planned everything; even their parenthood.
The children, who are all adults now, are all sick and tired of waiting for their inheritance; they have decided to get rid of their parents, just to get what is right-fully theirs. The children are living in America. (Line 82): But remember: your children have been living their lives of their own, in a very difficult, very competitive America; ......... - not in a dozen years but now.
The upbringing of the children have been full of love, the children have been privileged. (Line 118): The very best nursery schools, private schools, colleges, univer-sities ......... nothing is too good or too expensive for them. That last sentence is very im-portant I think: "Nothing is too g
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