Jealous deaths

In life there is jealousy and revenge with in all people. In the book Serena by Ron Rash many underlying conflicts are addressed but jealousy and what a person will do to overcome that jealousy prevails as in life. Throughout the book Ron Rash leads the reader down a windy path of what Serena will do in order to gain the power and to get back at the people who cost her the most. She uses death and many other vengeful techniques to scare away and hurt the people who have caused her the most problems. Pemberton also gets revenge on the people who cause him hurt and problems rather than letting the problems solve themselves. Galloway, who is bound to Serena, acts out so many of her and Pemberton’s revenge killings without hesitation. Ron Rash is trying to show that with life there are many different ways people show their jealousy and revenge.

As with when the book tells of when Serena and Pemberton arrive in North Carolina, Serena has a tinge of jealousy when dealing with Rachel and the unborn child. Although Pemberton kills Rachel’s father, Serena still has some tension with her in the beginning.

Says to Rachel, “By all rights it belongs to my husband. It’s a fine knife, and you can get a good price for it if you demand one, and I would. Sell it, I mean. That money will help when the child is born. It’s all you’ll ever get from my husband and me” (Rash 10). This sets the idea of Serena’s jealousy of Rachel and although she is carrying a child Serena encourages the death of her father and gives her the knife that resembles the death of her father. After the death of Serena’s child she then goes on the prowl with her goon, Galloway, to find Rachel and her child in order to kill Jacob, the child. She kills the woman who has been ta...

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...e ways in life jealousy and revenge is shown. Serena throughout the book is noticeable the source to the beginning of the jealous and revengeful streak that the camp goes through. Rash uses many of his different characters to show different forms of jealousy and revenge. As with Galloway he shows us a side of jealousy and revenge that is more or less due to his debt to Serena. Rash shows us that with life people can be jealous and revengeful due to others whether by debt or bias. Serena is the one character that rash uses as the main focal and at parts mysteries focal point of all the distrust and vengeance. With the use of Pemberton as the husband and starts to fall into these qualities of Serena. Rash though does use Rachel as the pure soul to the camp. Showing that as in life there is always the one that no matter how others act around them they are pure inside.