Thursday, November 18, 2010

Bastard Out Of Carolina


Bastard "Bastard Out Of Carolina" is a story about a girl who stole candy from a store and her mom forces her to return the candy. The mom is very disapointed by her daughter, she never wanted her to be a shoplifter. So the mom forces her daughter to go back to the store and return the candy. When they return to the store they get an unprepared for action from the guy that was in the store. This action connects to the theme, plot and conflict. This is a very big turning point that puts a huge click on the whole story.

    In the story the main characters feels an uncomfortable feeling after she steals candy from a store. But not quickly after she steals the candy, she gets this feeling when she takes it back and the old man in the store says and does bad things to the girl.This connects to the theme because a couple of themes in the story that always shows up about how it uncomfortable feelings and hate. This is how the theme in the story connects to the main characters feelings. 

    The conflict in the story reaches a turning point when it changes from the main character stealing the candy to when the old man tries to make sexual moves on the young girl. This is when the girl began to hate and feel uncomfortable around the man in the story. The clues are when the old man says "Don't cry, honey. It'll be all right. We'll take care of it, it'll be alright". As you can see he's talking to her very sweetly, and he knees down and holds her shoulder. The main character feelings very uncomfortable, and just cries. 

    The conflict of the story is that the girl stole candy from the store, and her mom made her return it to the store. The little girl felt very bad because she didn't want her mom to find out and feel bad. But it was too late, the mom found out and was very mad at her daughter. So the only right thing the mom suggested was to returned the candy to the store. That's when the old man who worked at the store tries to make sexual moves at her. Then the mom notices and just looks at her daughter, and soon after they both feel very weird.

    Most of the whole entire story revolves around when the girl and her mother take back the stolen candy. Because that's when all the weird tense starts to form, and all the weird conversation forms. Then at the end the little girl is banned from the store, until the mom says it's ok for her to go back to the store. This is mainly the theme,and it's also the turning point of the story.

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