Analysis Of The Book ' Bastard Out Of Carolina ' By Dorothy Allison

One of the most complex and elaborate characters in Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison is Bone. Throughout the story Bone has to live a life where she thinks that she is the leading mystery of the trouble being caused. She has numerous unhappy situations and is in no way self-satisfied with herself. She doesn’t appreciate who she is physically. She constantly thinks she is the most homely and dull person who causes the most inconvenience in the family. This sense of selflessness is mainly due to the physical and sexual abuse brought upon by Daddy Glen, Bone’s stepfather. Unfortunately, the assaults were stretched out over a long period of time, leaving little chance for Bone to recover as an adult if any at all. I decided to take

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Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel takes place during the depression in Alabama with the main character, Scout, viewing her lawyer father, Atticus, defending a wrongly accused black man of rape. The reader gets to understand Scout’s childhood view of this controversial situation. Scout’s character in to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is really the author’s own life playing out in the novel, which is most likely why this novel is thought to be one of the best American Novels of the 20th century.

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"Bones, she was diced-bones rolled on black." The Raped Girl's Father is a disturbing poem about a girl who is "unluckily" raped, and how this brings incredible anger and shame to her father. Written by Bruce Dawe, it contains an inept use of thought, feeling and language. It is an absorbing evocation of the girl's feelings and her horrendous suffering, and how her identity has changed as a consequence of the rape -for herself, her father and society.

The first hidden truth in Bastard out of Carolina came when Anney, Bone’s mother, married Daddy Glenn. The first sexual abuse encounter occurred while Anney was in labor with Reese. Because

A major result of the abuse reveals itself through Bone’s confusion of the true meaning of love. Her mother and the rest of the Boatwright’s show Bone a much different facet of love compared to Daddy Glen’s ideas. Daddy Glen constantly reminds Bone of how much he loves them all; however, she can’t understand why his love is manifested so strangely. She longs for the love of this “father figure”. Although, even his methods of abuse cloud her thinking, leaving her incapable of deciphering between pleasure and pain, especially shown in her masturbation.

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Illusions. Outside doors, they may portray a perfect family, but inside Bones home, the lights fade and the family is breaking. When reading Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison; it shows brutality, savagery, and the molesting of a child Bone; from her father, Glen. It shows the love of Anney and Bone's relationship, and family intertwined. This book opened up my eyes to the violence in homes, and living in a loving and safe home compared to Bone shows the divide in our living situations. Behind every door is a new world, and every door tells a different story.

Everywhere Anney went she was considered white trash, which is why she decides to marry up. Anney stays with Glen in hope that she can gain a husband and father for her children and so she can break free of this ‘white trash’ stereotype. Anney’s need for love leaves her blind to who Glen really is. “[Anney] needs him needs him like a starving woman needs meat between her teeth” (41) to the point where she continues to make excuses for Glen and stick by his side. For example, after Glen beats bone she claims “he loves her.” (246). It’s clear that Glen does not love Bone by the way he treats her. Glen degrades Bone and makes her feel like “no part of her was beautiful.”(208). Anney is so drunk in love with Glen that she even goes as far as saying she “sometimes hates herself, but [she] loves him. [She] loves him.” This example indicates how she loves Glen more than she loves herself, more than she loves her children. This extreme need for love is because of the stereotypes against women that society forces upon her. Anney is supposed to be a housewife with a husband and father for her children. Being identified as ‘white trash’ is her motivation for conforming to gender stereotypes and continuing to love a man that beats her child just so she can have a man in her

Bastard out of Carolina is a novel which examines the expectation of a mother-child relationship, child maltreatment and gender roles. It is based on the narrative of Ruth Anne “Bone” Boatright who grows up in rural Greenville County, South Carolina in the 1950’s and 60’s. Bone’s 15 year old mother, Anney Boatright, conceived Bone out of wedlock after being injured in a car accident which ultimately led to an “illegitimate” stamp on Bones’ birth certificate. Bone was raised in a very disadvantaged part of town. In an attempt to make sense of the chaotic and confusing dark world she lives in, she looked at her extended non-traditional family for support (grandmother, Aunts, uncles and cousins). Circumstances regarding socio-economic status, gender, race, sexuality and child maltreatment play out in Bone 's life as well as in her relationships with others throughout the novel. The focus is on Bone’s relationship with her mother Anney, the abuse that Bone endured from Anney’s second husband Glen “Daddy Glen” Waddell and Anney’s attempt to deal with the abuse she eventually witnessed herself.

As a society we often judge or form opinions based on others according to their gender, race and class; this is called stereotyping. Stereotyping involves making generalizations to describe or differentiate a group. Stereotypes are harmful to women and their experiences, because they can cause bad decision making that can lead to negative outcomes. Anney Boatwright in Dorothy Allison’s novel Bastards Out of Carolina is heavily burdened by the stereotype of being identified as ‘white trash,’ which leads her to making unorthodox decisions regarding her family in hope of breaking free of this white trash stereotype. Stereotypes are destructive in the shaping of individuals’ lives, because they make us disregard differences between individuals. Since stereotypes are everywhere and they are impossible to escape Anney finds herself conforming to gender stereotypes in order to try to rid herself of this white trash stereotype.

Nell is about the story of a young woman named Nell Kelty who has been isolated in the the wilderness of North Carolina since she was born. Growing up, the only people that Nell had contact with were her twin sister, who died when they were young, and her mother, whose death triggers the events of the film. As a result of her upbringing, Nell’s interpersonal communication skills and language abilities are seriously underdeveloped. The young woman soon finds herself in the middle of a power struggle; Dr. Jerome “Jerry” Lovell believes that Nell should be able to continue her simple life, while Dr. Paula Olsen wants to institutionalize and study Nell (Apted). Nell explores the development of many interpersonal communication concepts, specifically the concept of self, how perception is shaped, and the creation of interpersonal communication competence. While the film does not go into great analysis of each concept, it provides an adequate overview of interpersonal communication as whole, and acts as an example of real life application of interpersonal communication concepts.

Guilt and shame are themes that appear often throughout the text in the lives of the Bone, Daddy Glen, the Boatwright’s, and in other “poor white trash”. Bone deals with the shame of her sexual abuse in silence in fear of hurting her mother and making her unhappy. When her abuse started, she wanted nothing more than for her mother to be happy and realized at a young age that it was Glen. She had tried to get along with him but no matter what she did it was wrong. In Natalie Carter’s article, she points out that Daddy Glen’s abuse of Bone could be because of his own inadequacies as a provider and as a man. During this time period being a man without the ability to consistently provide for one’s family was a major issue. This could’ve made him feel less than in the eyes of other men which he sought the approval of. Granted he didn’t admit to it aside from the in the very beginning of the text when he worked with uncle Earle (Allison,). He may also be experiencing increasing