Child Abuse In Gary Paulsen's The Glass Cafe

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“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in this world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path,” (Agatha Christie, The Last Seance) represents the relationship between Tony and his mother, Al, who permits Tony to represent himself in an artistic fashion by allowing him to come to work with her at the Kitty Kat Club, a local club where his mother exotically dances at, so he can use her coworkers as models. In Gary Paulsen’s novella, the Glass Cafe, Tony, a 12 year old boy, whose drawings of his mother’s coworkers, who are strippers, are released in an art museum and the family is accused of child abuse and struggle to fight the court system. The primary setting is Tony’s

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