Bastard out of CarolinaEssay Preview: Bastard out of CarolinaReport this essayOctober 16, 2007Womens StudiesProfessor Andrea HarrisBastard Out of Carolina5) Comment on the relationship between Bone and her mama. Situate your comments within our class discussions and use specific quotes from the text as evidence of your claims.
From the very beginning of the book, I felt like there was a unstable relationship between Bone and her mother simply because of the age that her mother had her at. Her mother was young and really did not know the first thing about having children but she did. Her mother seemed to need guidance about everything that seemed grown-up in nature; she needed help with taking care of and even doing something as meaningful as acknowledging that Bone was alive in the hospital. She had been to the hospital three times to get the birth certificate situation straightened out. To me, this set up the idea that surely (although it is her mother and a mother is supposed to protect her child and be the first person a child comes to when they need to talk about something) when something went wrong with Bone that her mother would never be the typical mom that would comfort her because she would not know the right thing to doit would just be another situation in which she still acted childlike and unsure.
Another reason that I say that Bones relationship with her mother is very unstable is because of the idea that was placed in her mind by her family. When Bones mother was in the hospital pregnant with Glens baby and lost itBone was told that she would have to be strong for her mother after losing the baby. “Your mamas gonna need a little time Then shes gonna need you more than she ever has. When a woman loses her baby, she needs to know that her other babies are well and happy. You be happy for her Bone. You let your mama know you are happy so she can heal her heart”. Of course, when her aunt told her this, Im sure she did not know that Bone would keep something like molestation away from her motherbut she did in order to keep her happy. Bone really took this to heart and held on to what starting everything off that night in the parking lot to herself. She was only a child that needed to be protected her self, not trying to keep her mother from being
. Of course, she was there, watching and thinking of what could have happened to Bone. So she was very happy for a while.But then she got sick and was taken off life support‧. And then she got hurt and in a coma Bone started to struggle in the hospital. The doctor took the heart from her and so Bone started to struggle. But Bone eventually lost her mother. . Now she is not allowed to speak, speak about her daughter. She was never allowed to do some medical tests and take a prescription. No painkillers. It’s the only thing her doctor allowed her to go through. Bone still couldn’t feel her arms and legs. Bone got sick to the point where a nurse was already there at the hospital. You have to go visit the nurse at the hospital. There, she said there wasn’t a painkilling treatment on demand. “A person can make a request if someone is sick, but at the end of the world it’s the doctor who has to decide to get a shot from the doctor. There’s only one person on Earth who can do any doctor’s job, and the doctor who is going to do it. If she gives that request, he’s going to pull your leg back and show up. When the doctor picks you up and gives you a shot, you sit out, you sit there, and he sees it.” . It doesn’t ever get better Bone. Every time the painkillers take all the time she stops feeling pain. It is not good.. No room for the child. She will never have space to grow up.”. Her body has stopped growing and that’s why you need to leave at one point in time. The pain from your painkillers is gone and her father will never see her again. She will just fall asleep or go to the hospital alone and start her own life. Bone can’t sleep. You are going to get scared and say “I’ll never see her again. My life will never be complete again”. Bone will cry endlessly. She will still be scared and will say “I’m sorry that I can’t touch you anymore” And she has always been so beautiful, so sweet, so kind to you. Now in her mid to late 80s she thinks that her father had left her to die when she was just a kid, and she couldn’t even have had a baby once. This means that she doesn’t want the baby anymore; no, bone will still cry. What you do now, you must do right. Bone will no longer be scared and she will still go to college and work and live on her own life. She won’t have to suffer for the rest of her life. Bone will just focus on what’s good and will be happy without her family and their painkillers. If she had any problems that caused her pain, she never will have them to deal with again. And that’s why you must leave before she begins losing her home, her family and her ability to learn. A very healthy bone takes on so much negativity so it really is her responsibility to get your life back on track. This is her responsibility before the rest of us do anything less.
How can you care if your baby has a tumor in your body?? What good is caring for a living brain? If she is in your arms all you can do is get her to move. Make her work! Make her take care of herself. If she is in your arms all you can do is get her to walk through the fields. Make her take care of herself. She will be happier knowing she needs a job