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October 16, 2007

Women's Studies

Professor Andrea Harris

Bastard Out of Carolina

5) 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......

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