Quiz #1

A. Mary has a dislike for her grandmother. I think that these felling increased when her grandmother came to live with them. This is shown immediately when she says "maybe its wrong to blame the arrival of Grandma Moore for much of the worst hurt in my family, but she was such a ring-tailed bitch that i do"(41). The first thing her grandmother did was change a lot of the habits that Mary had grown accustomed to. Such as they were no longer permitted to eat dinner on the parents bed, or change into pj's at any time in the day after they were done playing. Also she made them take a bath every night which by her tone, I could tell Mary was not fond of. Mary's feeling toward her grandmother show when she talks about her grandmother's cancer as if it does not affect her at all, Mainly shown by her lack of response when she finds her grandma dead. Grandma Moore does not think too highly of Mary either. She talks about her grandmothers dislike for her look and her dark complexion resembling the native American genes from her father. And finally Grandma revealed to Mary that her mother had two other children from a previous marriage.

B. They run from Leechfield in order to escape hurricane Carla. On the bridge her mother crashed the car. She describes it as a 360 spin that ended up on the pedestrian walkway, Yet her mother simply asked if everyone was alright and drove away.