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Submerged in water, it was the fourth of July on Grayling Island, the Senator's rented Toyota whistling tunes of the Beatles, topics of debate: the Vietnam War, Dukakis, skidded off the road. Lizzie, "Kelly" they are not the same, she can't die like this, no not now. She was someone's little girl, not a bad girl, she wasn't a bad girl, she told her mother she wasn't don't mention G____, was she ready? Her white anklet socks flew into the air as massive male hands, Grandpa's hands, swept her off her feet saving her from the black waters rushing in, they didn't have to know, they wouldn't have to tell Grandma, Grandpa was spared, he died several years before. Kelly wrote a paper on the senator, her senior thesis, she grabbed on to his …show more content…

As his rented Toyota, played ominous, youthful, synthesized hyms on the radio, her pressed lips tried to formulate the word lost, lost, if she only knew how right she was. Oates often enhanced Kelly's character by weaving conscious thought within the novel. "It was strange that so many of the trees in the marsh seemed to be dead . . .were they dead? Pollution?" The trees represent Kelly's character. Though everyone thought her to be dead, constricted breaths of life still pulsated through her veins, her very soul, as in the case of those deadened trees tormented by man's devastating effects. No one could save her, not her professors at Brown University, the precarious Buffy, nor her Herculean Grandfather. The Gulf War, Dukakis, the Senator; politics consumed her living life. "The way you make your life, the love you put into it, that's God." She didn't believe in the Anglican God everyone adored, her religion was politics. Her witty comments enticed the Senator, he chose her, she was the one; his passenger. His fatal short-cut to uncertainty shortened not only the distance to their "destination" but also Kelly's existence. Her life, her friends, her relationships, no longer obtained placement within her remaining moments; instinct, sanity, survival proved to be her only link to the land of the living. She remembered an old colleague, Lisa, who tried to take her own life. She imagined the hospital where Lisa

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