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Context: Dorothy Allison was born April 11th, She was born in Greenville, South Carolina. Her first book "Bastard Out of Carolina" was published March In the U. The U. The story "River of Names" is about a young woman who is talking about the events and things that went on in her life to her female partner. From understanding that she has become a lesbian and the sexual abuse she went through in her childhood.
They perceive people who are poor, and from the south as "white trash. Allison is from the back woods of South Carolina and presents these people in a way that challenges the expectations of the American public and at the same time does not romanticize their lives.
The story is told by a narrator, who is nameless, and her experiences while growing up in this type of family and follows all the stereotypical images that come to mind: "broken teeth, torn overalls, and the dirt.
Her words are not simple, but hard edged truths. The narrator will be telling story to Jessie about her childhood. But Jessie did not know that the story where actually real. She thought that the narrator made it up. Jessie always relax the narrator when the narrator have a bad dream. Jessie had a blessed life with her father going off each day to the university , her mom making all the dresses she wears, and her grandmother always smelled of dill bread and vanilla.
Jessie had a wonderful childhood no sexually abuse, losing family members cause of suicide. The theme is survival because the narrator had survive through all that terrible events. She is now living with Jessie happily. Another example is " Somehow it was always made to seem they killed themselves: car wrecks, shotguns, dusty ropes, screaming, falling out of windows, things inside them. She survive that tragedy and became who she is today with Jessie.
The symbol of the short story is the book. The narrator is always referring to the the lie that she gets from the book. In the short story the narrator said " I lie to her the way I always do, a lie stolen from a book.
The narrator used the book to cover up her childhood memories. The narrator had a bad childhood memories getting raped by her stepfather, her cousins went missing, got raped, or killed themselves. She said all of her childhood was a lie to Jessie that she got it from the book. Important Quotations Explained " I lie to her the way I always do, a lie stolen from a book. After hearing the narrator childhood Jessie did not believe it was true. She believed that everybody had a fairy tale childhood like her.
But the narrator told Jessie that it was a lie she got from the book. So, Jessie would not know her childhood life was horrible.
Jessie also believed that the stories that the narrator tells her is just a story it can't happen in real life.
This quote is important because its shows how the narrator does not want any children.
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