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Towards the beginning of this novel I felt there was just so much going on that it didn’t really catch my interest. Starting from the first chapter Jackson’s writing seemed very repetitive and held too many riddles that I couldn’t solve. But fast forwarding to the middle it became clear who the main characters were in the story; Mary Katherine Blackwood and her older sister Constance Blackwood.
This is when I felt the story was getting interesting, at first I wasn’t really sure who killed the parents. I thought possibly it was someone outside of the Blackwood house possibly a jealous villager such as Jim Donell. He who appeared very intent on the Blackwood family moving away in Chapter one. But as I kept reading I turned my attention to Charles who only came to visit because her had motive; the money in the Blackwood safe. I thought perhaps he
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I didn’t expect Merricat to be the one who killed her family, not that she seemed innocent. But I’m a little confused at what her motive was? I mean constantly it seemed like she wasn’t aware of reality at all. With her burying little treasures or putting them in places around the perimeters of the house as a way to protect herself and her family from evil. Merricat especially liked her father’s personal items. “ I intended to bury it, but I was sorry when I thought how long it had been there in the darkness in the box in our father’s drawer, and I thought that it had earned it could sparkle in the sunlight, and I decided to nail it to a tree where the book had come down.” (Jackson, 76-77)
It felt like when Charles had visited Constance put on an act, in order to show Cousin Charles that she wasn’t like her sister Mericat or her Uncle Julian. To demonstrate she was capable of making decisions and that she is still in her right mind. Because if she seemed just as crazy as the other two Charles would of had more leverage to do what he wanted with all three of them and take the money for
Although the main character in the book was white, the author, Sue Kidd, does a great job of depicting the African American culture during the time. Whether it was Rosaleen getting beat up in jail, or Zach dreaming of being a lawyer, this book showed you what it was like being a minority during a time when rights where still being fought for. One of the smaller conflicts in the story was a man verses man conflict, when Lily and Zach started to like each other. Though they knew that a colored man, and a white girl could never be together, they both were attracted to each other. Were they not from different cultures, people would have been fine with them dating, but because Zach was black, it couldn?t work out.
As for the analysis of the book itself, although the author aims toward providing a chronicle of two years in the lives of the two brothers, he actually ends up writing more about their mother. He discusses LaJoe's parents, how they met and married and why they moved to Horner. He depicts LaJoe as an extremely kind-hearted yet tough woman who will do anything to help not only her own family, but all the neighborhood children as well. LaJoe feeds and cares for many of the neighborhood children. For this, she is rare and special in an environment of black mothers who are prostitutes and drug addicts. She sticks by her children when most mothers would be ashamed and disown them. I finished this book feeling a great deal of respect and admiration for LaJoe and everytihg she went through.
The Blackwoods are feared and hated by the Villagers, who simultaneously rescent the Blackwoods privilege, and the transgressions against the mysterious poisoning. Fear goes both ways in this novel, the Blackwoods have blocked off everyone except Helen Clarke, which provides a safe haven for them all. When Merricat goes into town the reader can see both sides of fear between the two of them. Near the ending of the book, the Blackwoods secluded world is torn apart after the fire is started by Charles cigar. this gives the Villagers a chance to finally pass through the fence and put their fear into frustration, by destroying the
Charles returns to the house to try and apologize to Merricat and Constance until his temper gets the better of him and we realize that he is there for the safe with all the money in it. Charles was very aggressive and rude to Constance at times and at first, he seemed like he was the way to the outside world to her. But later we see he is only there for the money and not to help the girls. When Charles returns and actually sounds like he is choked up talking about Uncle Julian but before he leaves he ends up pathetically going back to begging about the money in the safe. Constance finds this hysterical and is the happiest we have seen her in the novel “Then Constance laughed, and I laughed, and for a minute I saw Charles in the car turn his head quickly...and we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with tears running down our cheeks” (Jackson 144). Constance’s reaction to Charles leaving forever in such a pathetic way demonstrates how happy she is that he is out of her life and done making her do things that she doesn’t want to do. We see how even though she was open and actually liked the idea of going back to meet the outside world but after the events in chapter 9 we see how happy she is to shut herself back off from the real world. Constance’s happiness doesn’t just come from going back to living as a shut in with her sister it also comes from
If asked to name one person involved in the fight for social equalities would Susan B. Anthony come to mind? Susan’s passion for social reform began on her family farm in Adams, Massachusetts. On the fifteenth of February in 1820, Susan Brownell Anthony was born to a local cotton mill owner and his wife. She was the second eldest of eight children born to the Quaker family. It was in this Quaker family were her passion for equal rights grew. In the Quaker religion women are treated equal to men before God. According to Sara Ann McGill (2017) author of “Susan B. Anthony”, around age seventeen Anthony’s family moved to Battenville, New York only to lose their home to bankruptcy and move to Rochester,
Jackson went through many hardships through his life due to emotions towards other characteristics that resulted in a conflict or emotions that there were unable to share with one another creating misunderstanding within the relationship. William Henry confronted his son and they vented their negative emotions out and made room for positive starting’s, and Jack was able to express his emotions rather than hiding them and not be as open about them towards her. Due to the changes in Jackson he is able to create a better identity of himself and take the appropriate actions.
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The relationship between Constance and her mother, Carmen, is utterly terrifying. The amount of times Carmen hit and beats Constance is sad, and at some points utterly heart breaking. When having a choice to make between her children, it’s always painfully obvious that she always chooses her other children over Constance, the hand-me downs and second hand presents at Christmas showed this time and time again. To Carmen, being mother and daughter meant nothing to her, as she continued her abuse of Constance throughout her life, a disturbing reminder that Carmen did not