Arthur's Big Hit
/Have you ever seen the Arthur fist meme? Maybe you’ve seen it and not known where it came from. It was moments before Arthur hit his sister for the first and last time. In this exclusive look back to the events of the Big Hit, this article will show why Arthur had every right to hit his sister when he did.
On September 6, 1999, Arthur Timothy Read got so angry that he hit his younger sister, Dora Winifred (D.W.) Read. Following the hit, his parents, Jane and David, told him no TV for a week as punishment. His friends thought it was crazy that Arthur, their good friend, had actually hit his younger sister. Should everyone have been so surprised? No. This had been building for a while.
Arthur had been making a model plane for about a week. D.W. wanted to play with it, but Arthur told her not to. In the Read household, things between D.W. and Arthur were always tense. Once, Arthur even made a sign asking D.W. to stay out of his room – which she refused to read, entering his room anyway.
"It wasn't like I just hit her out of nowhere." Arthur said after being asked to recall the events. "It had been building for a while. D.W. never listens to me."
The photo to the right was proved by Arthur Read.
Arthur asked D.W. to leave him alone so he could build in peace. All he wanted to do was focus on his personal project. D.W. wouldn’t leave him alone.
That was strike one.
Most of the problems between Arthur and D.W. were due to D.W. not listening to Arthur’s polite requests.
When D.W. entered Arthur's room to play with the model plane, she wouldn’t listen to Arthur telling her that it wasn’t just a toy plane, but a delicate model. Arthur said he had to repaint it after he found his sister in his room holding his model when the paint wasn't dry.
That was strike two.
The third and final strike of that week was when D.W. snuck into Arthur’s room to play with his plane and broke it. She threw it out the window where it plummeted to the ground and smashed. Once Arthur saw his hard work ruined, he became very angry and rightfully so.
Arthur had never even thought about hitting his younger sister before. No matter how angry she made him. The hit was so strong he knocked her to the ground. There was a moment's pause from D.W. once her bottom hit the ground. It took Arthur a moment to realize what had happened. He couldn’t believe he had done it himself. D.W. may be his younger sister but she had it coming for a while.
Arthur hasn’t hit anyone since the hitting incident of 1999. After so long of being ignored by D.W. and losing countless toys to her ignorance, Arthur did what only a child who was as angry as he was in that moment to do. Sometimes when you can’t express yourself with words all you can do is speak with your actions.
Julia Rivoire
Julia enjoys mobile and PC games in her free time. She has a dog, Shadow, who means the world to her but they live in different towns while Julia attends school. Nothing memes oh sorry I mean nothing means more to her then memes.
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