Winter's Bone - Quotes
Areas of study: Winter’s Bone Quotes
Family history and the weight of the past and its impacts on people
Woodrell’s depiction of people
What it mean to remain a moral, decent person
Page 7-8 – Contrasting characteristics between Sonny and Harold: Sonny…seed from a brute, strong, hostile and direct…his fists made hard young knots, and he’d become a scrapper at school.
Harold…lacked the same sort of punishing spirit and muscle and often came home in need of fixing…
Page 8 – Dolly kids: …were that way, ruined before they had chin hair, groomed to live outside square law and abide by the remorseless blood-soaked commandments that governed lives led outside square law.
The rough Dollys were plenty peppery and hard-boiled towards one another, but were unleashed hell on enemies, scornful of town law and town ways, clinging to their own.
Page 25 – Dolly’s relationship with the Hawkfall people: Our relations get watered kind thin between this valley here and Hawkfall.
Page 28 – Ree re-lives the past: …She tried to conjure their pioneer lives and think if she saw parts of their lives showing in her own… See those olden Dolly kin who had so many bones that broke, broke and mended, broke and mended wrong, so they limped through life on the bad-mend bones for year upon year until falling dead in a single evening from something that sounded wet in the lung.
Page 28 – Masculinity and femininity in the Ozarks: Men…nights of running wild or time in the pen(jail), cooking moon and gathering around the spout, with ears chewed , fingered chopped, arms shot away, and no apologies grunted every.
Women…bigger, closer with their lonely eyes and homely yellow teeth, mouths clamped against smiles, working in the hot field from can to can’t, hands tattered rough as dry cobs…a white dress for marrying, a black dress for burying, and Ree nodded yup. Yup.
Page 32 – Gail married off at young age: …a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw
Family history and the weight of the past and its impacts on people
Woodrell’s depiction of people
What it mean to remain a moral, decent person
Page 7-8 – Contrasting characteristics between Sonny and Harold: Sonny…seed from a brute, strong, hostile and direct…his fists made hard young knots, and he’d become a scrapper at school.
Harold…lacked the same sort of punishing spirit and muscle and often came home in need of fixing…
Page 8 – Dolly kids: …were that way, ruined before they had chin hair, groomed to live outside square law and abide by the remorseless blood-soaked commandments that governed lives led outside square law.
The rough Dollys were plenty peppery and hard-boiled towards one another, but were unleashed hell on enemies, scornful of town law and town ways, clinging to their own.
Page 25 – Dolly’s relationship with the Hawkfall people: Our relations get watered kind thin between this valley here and Hawkfall.
Page 28 – Ree re-lives the past: …She tried to conjure their pioneer lives and think if she saw parts of their lives showing in her own… See those olden Dolly kin who had so many bones that broke, broke and mended, broke and mended wrong, so they limped through life on the bad-mend bones for year upon year until falling dead in a single evening from something that sounded wet in the lung.
Page 28 – Masculinity and femininity in the Ozarks: Men…nights of running wild or time in the pen(jail), cooking moon and gathering around the spout, with ears chewed , fingered chopped, arms shot away, and no apologies grunted every.
Women…bigger, closer with their lonely eyes and homely yellow teeth, mouths clamped against smiles, working in the hot field from can to can’t, hands tattered rough as dry cobs…a white dress for marrying, a black dress for burying, and Ree nodded yup. Yup.
Page 32 – Gail married off at young age: …a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw