The Characteristics Of A Bastard Out Of Carolina

Abigail Salmon is one of the main characters in the book, Lovely Bones, written by J L. Her daughter was brutally murdered by a killer and rapist living nearby. The tragedy destroys the family and turn the life around of those who are close to Suisse. Abigail goes through five stages of grief, her path, after the tragedy falls, right into the concept of Elizabeth Kudler-Ross. Desperate mother experiences denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance.

Mrs Bone prefers to keep it quite about what goes on like a lot of

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

"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.

Physical violence wasn’t the only hardship that she endured in her early life. Her family became severed when three of her sisters were sold to other plantations that were far away. A trader from Georgia approached interested in buying her youngest brother, but their mother successfully resisted, preventing further

As today’s controversy surrounding Confederate memory grows, it begins to include not just the popular monuments to the Confederacy such as Stone Mountain, and monuments to General Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Nathan Forrest. Now even lesser memorials such as Silent Sam have also come under attack from civil rights activists lately. Silent Sam has stood on the University of North Carolina’s main campus in Chapel Hill for over 100 years. In that time there have only been a few times in which Sam has been the object of criticism.

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.

Susie and her father Mr. Salmon both throughout the novel The Lovely Bones written by Alice Sebold (2002) change each other as a consequence of Susie’s murder. Alice Sebold uses Negative tone and Hyperbole literary techniques to demonstrate the change between Susie and her father through the Narration by Susie about Mr. Salmon for example when Susie talks about how “Mr. Salmon was crazy with grief and had gone out to the cornfield seeking revenge”. Through the use of these Techniques Alice Sebold tugs on the emotions of the audience and allows them to reflect on the change in the Salmon household between losing a daughter and wanting to gain closure and as a consequence of this the audience become torn between two decisions and Alice Sebold enables the audience to consider their life morals. All through the text Alice Sebold grants the audience the understanding to the concept of change and these examples help the audience to mould their thinking through her use of various literary techniques.

     Understanding the Cultural differences can lead one to understand Bone from a new perspective. Expectations of difficulty for the women in the book are much more prevalent and the children’s unstable home environment can be understood. Views of

The second theme exhibited by the grandmother is her class and racial prejudice, as most characters in southern gothic stories do. The grandmother exudes a sense of self-righteousness that she explains is imbedded in her because she came from a good family. Throughout “A Good Man is Hard to Find” descriptions of the south come up often. Most of the images are portrayed when the grandmother is reminiscing about “In my time” and on the “plantation” (114). Her insistent attitude and obsession about visiting the plantation shows the grandmother truly enjoyed that time period and implies she had no problem with the racial segregation in that era. She remembers back to when she was a young girl and Mr. Edgar Atkins Teagarden would bring her watermelon. “but she never got the watermelon”, “ because a nigger boy ate it when he saw the initials E.A.T.!” (115). It is clear the grandmother feels it is appropriate to use the N word when referring to African Americans, even years after slavery era. As the grandmother glamorizes Negroes and life on the plantation, it is clear she admired the ways of the Old South, a true characteristics of Southern Gothic writing. Her stereotypical character projects a prejudice that leaves the audience uncomfortable throughout the story.

Some critics have argued that Richard Wright’s women are “flat, one dimensional stereotypes, portrayed primarily in terms of their relationship to the male character”. (Quote, p540) However, in Uncle Tom’s Children, Wright resents three very distinct types of female characters who did not fit this description. Wright portrays women as an Avenger, a Sufferer and a Mother figure whose actions propel the stories to their final conclusion. In the story “Bright and Morning Star” Wright places the protagonist, Aunt Sue, in a domestic environment. “Her hands followed a lifelong ritual of toil” (pg222) as she cleans and cooks. Interestingly, Aunt Sue is the only heroine in the stories, who shows a different type of bravery than perhaps shown by

As the story begins, Walker introduces “Mama”. She, the narrator of the story, describes herself as a “large, big-boned woman with rough, man working hands”

The grandmother demonstrates that she does not see things for how they truly are. We see this when they are driving down to Florida and she sees a Negro boy and goes “ Look at the cute little pickaninny!” (O’Connor 251). She then goes on about in the past, they never had pants because they were expensive, but she goes how cute at a poor boy. Not realizing that the little Negro was poor and had nothing. Also, when the misfit comes and attacks them, she tells him over and over again “ Listen,”... “ I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from good people!” (O’Connor 259). She says this that based on his appearance, which he looks fair, but has strong white teeth, which was uncommon at the time and signifies wealth, that he will not kill a lady because she has manners and feel she is above everyone because of these

It is almost certain that in writing “Miss Annie” and “The Gaulin Wife” Patricia Glinton was warning Bahamian men to not take women for granted. The depiction of women on the two folk tales include humble, competitive, lonely, inquisitive, and fierce. Various of our Bahamian women have these traits. Hence, the stories are indeed a reflection on Bahamian women.

MacLeod describes the mother is a traditional, unopened, obstinate woman who lives a simple and peaceful fishing life, and she thinks her children should maintain the same life as well. According to MacLeod, “My mother ran her house as her brothers ran their boats. Everything was clean spotless and in order” (311). It can be seen that the mother is living around the house, and the house means significant to the mother just like the boat is the life of a fisherman. Under MacLeod’s description: “the men leaning in the doorways of their shanties with their cigarettes glowing in the dusk and the women looking to the sea from their open windows with their children in their arms” (315), it is a peaceful scene that the people in this community have been living on fishing for hundreds of years, the mother is raised in this tradition and she desires the next generation to remain and continue the same life. The mother’s attitude towards reading and education is scorn, she thinks reading is “waste lives” (313) and books are “useless” (313), and she says “I would like to know how books help anyone to live a life” (313) which indicates her traditional thoughts that the only way to earn money and take care of families is go fishing. Despite the mother’s traditional thinking, she is also obstinate and unopened, “She said the restaurant was not run by ‘our people’, and ‘our people’ did not eat there, and it was run by outsiders for outsiders” (313). She refuses to accept any lifestyles