ch 7-14 update ethan

24 04 2007

In these chapters, the role of women drastically changes. in the first third of the book, they seem very level headed and loving. in this part of the book they seem to be driven more by their emotions. The women seem to think emotionaly rather than rationally, for example, because mama is supposed to love bone, bone loves her back, even though mama still blames bone for her beatings.

The reason for this may be that the author wants to show the unpredictability of the characters, especially the boatwrights. it seems like the simple lives of the boatwrights seem to fall apart the more the characters let their emotions run their lives.

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Date : 24 April 2007
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2 responses to “ch 7-14 update ethan”

24 04 2007: yhscarolinawhite (21:35:47) :
25 04 2007: Mrs. P (12:08:37) :

Ethan and Margaret,
Interesting exchange about the role of emotions. I am wondering if you think that one gender or another lets emotions control them more. Are women more compelled by emotions, or do you see that men react to emotions as well?

Mrs. P

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Summary

Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family--rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furious--until their final, harrowing encounter, from which their can be no turning back.

Bastard out of Carolina