Sunday, April 29, 2007
Book
This book has been pretty good so far. I do agree with that it is very graphic in detail and controversial. I can't believe how graphic they make the scene with the father and Bone. It's really horrible. They also explain how Bone masturbates to her fathers beating which I find very odd. The book is alright but hard to get through because it's boring. I also don't understand why the mother doesn't leave the husband and take the kids if the husband is so bad to her daughter. She knows that her husband beat her and just lets it go. That's really horrible.
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I really like this book. I do agree, however, that it is very graphic and often shocking. I enjoy exploring the characters and watching the story evolve though. I really want to just yell at Anney to leave Glen but at the same time I'm trying to understand her position. Bone's father left and Anney had to raise Bone alone and then Lyle came along and Anney really loved him and then he died. When Glen came along Anney had 2 kids and had been through so much that I think she put all she had left in Glen and along with believing that she really needed him, even though she seemed to support the family financially more than Glen did, made her think she was really in love with him. Leaving him she would have lost all that. There were times that it was evident that Anney was trying to protect Bone, by making sure she was never home alone with Glen and sending her to relatives' houses. Despite this I still strongly believe she have taken the girls and run the first time Glen touched Bone but I'm just trying to understand her a little better.
I have to disagree with you, I really like the book and think that because it is so controversial that it really keeps it interesting. I do however agree with you when you say some of it is a little disturbing. I mean come on, how come Anney doens't leave Glen when she knows that Glen is beating Bone whenever he can. I think it must be hard for her to chose between the life she wants, a happy husband and children life, or the life she's getting a miserable husband with no job and struggling all together. I mean she loves Glen's affection but is it enough to keep her with him when he is beating up her child? I think the the fact that you brought up the sexual issues with Bone, it really suprises me how buch that this is really touched on in the book. I have never really read a book where masturbation is involved with children so much. It is kind of disturbing but i guess it is a topic that needs to be discussed in Dorothy Allison's eyes.
I agree that it is really horrible that Anney didn't leave Glen to protect Bone. I thought that was strange too. I just had no sympathy for Anney at all. I really couldn't understand how you could love someone so much that you would put your own flesh and blood in harms way. I think I would hate Anney had she been my mother. Of course I can't say for sure, since I have never be in this situation, and would never want to be, but I couldn't imagine still caring about my mother. Bone says she wants Anney to be happy, and she knows that being away from Glen is making her miserable. I would want my mother to be miserable for all the years of pain I had endured.
I never thought the book would be as graphic as it is either. I mean the abuse scenes are pretty horrible, but at the same time I think it's really necessary to capture the emotion of the book.
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