Margaret-Third post (in response to Ethan’s second post)

24 04 2007

I never thought about what you wrote in your comment. It’s very true that the characters in this novel let their emotions steer their lives. This, in effect, harms the relationship that they have with each other. For example, Mama loves Glen, and this loves fogs up her responsibility as a mother. In the end of the book she ends up leaving Bone, and the book makes you think that it’s because she goes to live with Glen. Bone lets her emotions of pride and love towards her mother get in the way of her safety. When her aunt asks her if she is beat, she lies because of Mama. Ethan, you were very right about this aspect of the book, I agree completely

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Date : 24 April 2007
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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