{"id":776,"date":"2011-08-09T15:10:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2011\/08\/09\/whys-this-so-good-no-7-deborah-blum-barry-siegel-a-fathers-pain\/"},"modified":"2024-03-04T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:56:10","slug":"whys-this-so-good-no-7-deborah-blum-barry-siegel-a-fathers-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2011\/08\/09\/whys-this-so-good-no-7-deborah-blum-barry-siegel-a-fathers-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhy\u2019s this so good?\u201d No. 7: Barry Siegel and the weight of consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-html mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            On a bright autumn morning, a man drives into the wilderness of the Utah mountains. As he arrives, the sun glows, the clouds float, the aspens glimmer in a passing breeze, \u201chumming a faint prayer.\u201d In the front seat of his pickup, the man\u2019s toddler son dozes happily in the warm light.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/blum-d1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11128\" title=\"blum-d\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/blum-d1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>A golden moment, you might think, in which nothing can go wrong. Or, in the tradition of classic literature, a sucker-punch moment after which all will go wrong. And in Barry<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> <\/span>Siegel\u2019s 2002 Pulitzer-Prize winning piece for the Los Angeles Times, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/works\/2002-Feature-Writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Father\u2019s Pain, A Judge\u2019s Duty and a Justice Beyond Their Reach<\/a>,\u201d everything does go wrong.<br \/><br \/>This is not, though, a tale of the Fates idly spinning out mortal threads. Siegel\u2019s story is one of human decisions and their consequences. It is, in fact, the story of a single choice that ripples, stone into water, into a widening circle of lives. And it\u2019s within that ever-expanding circle that this story of a local tragedy \u2013 the too-familiar tale of a careless moment and a dead child \u2013 becomes something bigger.<br \/><br \/>I\u2019ll confess that as the mother of two sons, this is not the kind of story that I necessarily look to read. But I\u2019ve come back to it repeatedly, partly because it\u2019s so compelling, partly to figure out what makes it so compelling. I especially admire the way Siegel structures his narrative. He doesn\u2019t follow people as much as he follows decisions, and the consequences of those decisions continue to unfold until the very last line of the story.<!--more--><br \/><br \/>Siegel makes his vision of the story clear from the start, beginning not in that humming moment in the wilderness but later in the chambers of the presiding judge in the case of little Gage Wayment. The judge is waiting for the father, Paul Wayment, to begin a brief jail sentence. And as he waits, as the day lengthens, Judge Robert Hilder begins to worry about Wayment.<br \/><blockquote><em>He\u2019d sentenced Wayment to jail even though the prosecutor didn\u2019t want this distraught father to serve time. Hilder felt he had to. Wayment\u2019s negligence caused his young son\u2019s death. There must be consequences, the judge ruled.<\/em><\/blockquote><br \/><em> <\/em><br \/><br \/>The story moves forward, exploring the reasoning behind decisions, from police to prosecutor to judge. As it does so, a haunting question emerges: What defines the limits on\u00a0our ability to live with consequences, to bear up under the<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> <\/span>results of the choices we make?<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe first choice, though,\u201d as Siegel notes, \u201chad been Paul Wayment\u2019s.\u201d As 2-year-old<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> <\/span>Gage slept in the truck on that shining morning, a trio of deer drifted past into the forest. Wayment decided to follow them, just for a little bit. And then another a little bit. By all accounts, he then lost track of time. It was one or two miles later when he realized how long he\u2019d been gone. When he hurried back to the truck, Gage was gone, apparently off looking for his father.<br \/><br \/>It took five days to find the child, and in that time period an autumn squall swept through the mountains, leaving almost half a foot of snow behind it. When a searcher found the little boy huddled under the scant shelter of a tree, he was long dead. His father had anticipated it, feared it from the moment he reported Gage missing:<br \/><blockquote><em>\u201cI\u2019m responsible for his death if he is dead,\u201d\u00a0Wayment said. \u201cI\u2019m responsible for his death. I don\u2019t think you can put it any other way &#8230; I had custody of him. I was supposed to look out for him. He was under my care.\u201d<\/em><\/blockquote><br \/>Siegel places that story, the judge\u2019s story, the story of the criminal investigation, the decision of the prosecutor to charge the grief-stricken father, and the community uproar surrounding the death all within the suspended time period in which Judge Hilder waits for news of Wayment. There\u2019s an astonishingly good section in which the members of the prosecutor\u2019s office debate whether charges should be filed at all \u2013 what could be worse punishment, after all, than the death of a beloved child? When they decide to move forward, it\u2019s with resignation: \u201cIf they didn\u2019t, they&#8217;d be saying it was OK, or at least not criminal, to leave children alone in a remote area.\u201d<br \/><br \/>By this point, Siegel has clearly established Hilder as the narrative focus for the story. He\u2019s told the judge\u2019s life story, built a thoughtful portrait of the man who must decide the unhappy father\u2019s future. He\u2019s also used the judge\u2019s story as something of a narrative device: Hilder expects the Wayment case to come to him, dreads it, follows it, and as he does, so do we. Eventually, inevitably, the story reaches the point where Hilder learns of Wayment\u2019s fate.<br \/><br \/>What I love about this story is that it\u2019s an entirely compassionate look at a world, our world, in which decisions \u2013 careless decisions, carefully thought-out decisions \u2013 can and do go wrong. Wayment is never anything less than a father who loves his child. Hilder is never anything but a judge trying to make the best decision possible in the midst of a genuine tragedy. Both of them are forced to live with terrible consequences.<br \/><br \/>In the end, this is a story that looks for resolution. Hilder tries again to make the best possible decision, not just to live with his choice but also to learn from it. \u201cIt\u2019s not a bad thing,\u201d he says, \u201cto have Paul Wayment\u2019s face forever part of my life.\u201d<br \/><br \/><em><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahblum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deborah Blum<\/a> is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=O2HqmJtFkDIC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=the+poisoner's+handbook&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=_0pBTua4NMfm0QHQtJSsCQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Poisoner\u2019s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><br \/><br \/><em><em><em><em><em>For more from this collaboration with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/longreads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Longreads<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/alexismadrigal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexis Madrigal<\/a>,\u00a0check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanstoryboard.org\/category\/whys-this-so-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the previous posts in the series<\/a>. And stay tuned for a new shot of inspiration and insight every week<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a bright autumn morning, a man drives into the wilderness of the Utah mountains. As he arrives, the sun glows, the clouds float, the aspens glimmer in a passing breeze, \u201chumming a faint prayer.\u201d In the front seat of his pickup, the man\u2019s toddler son dozes happily in the warm light. 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