March Literature Circle Letter #2

This week, I have read pages 104 to 203. I haven't annotated one page. I don't usually annotate anything because I don't go back and look at them later. I have tried annotating two books, The Hobbit, and Schindler's List. In the first book, I wrote in the book and felt like I ruined the value of the book. In Schindler's List, I used post-its, and there were just too many. If I were to annotate a book, I would just leave a little post-it on that page, reminding myself to look over it. I don't like writing that much.

In these 99 pages, the only part I enjoyed reading was Shannon and Bone getting mad at each other, and making up. Shannon invites Bone to a barbecue, and when Shannon plays with lighter-fluid she starts a fire. She added more fluid, and the lighter-fluid can sputtered and sucked up air. The flame went right back to her, and died. Earlier when they were arguing at the church where they met, Shannon says to Bone "It's colored. It's niggers." She insults Bone's family by saying "...Everybody knows you're all a bunch of drunks and thieves and bastards. Everybody knows you just come round so you can eat off my mama's table and beg scraps we don't want no more. Everybody knows who you are..." Bone replies with "You little shit, you fuck off...You're God's own ugly child and you're gonna be an ugly woman. A lonely, ugly old woman." This is a turning point for Bone, where she turns from an angel to a bitch. I think it's due to her step-father raping her twice now, and broke her coccyx. She now defends herself, and even Reese and her don't get along.

The only question I have is why Reese turned into a tom-boy and argues with Bone a lot now.