For this weeks assignment, we're reading Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell. So far this book is incredibly interesting. The story is a tale of a 16 year girl, Ree, whom's father has skipped bail. It seems to me that the family is from a very country town, which is mostly family, as most country towns are. The time of year is of course winter, based on the title, which causes many challenges for Ree. As I am only about 50 pages into the book, i think that i have a fairly good grasp on the overall theme of the book, however not a great grasp on the outcome.
Ree seems like a fairly poorly educated teenager, as the first part of the book, she's not going to school. Her mother is having the first stages of dementia, and her father is a drug addict, and criminal. Her two brothers are inseperable, and have fallen sick. Hopefully they will recover from the sickness and not die throughout the book. It seems to me that the book is going to take a grim outlook and that is why i say this.
I hope that Ree finds her father and brings him to the law before his court date, and they don't have to loose thier house, and be forced to ask for help, which is simply something that they dont want to do. My head goes to her in her search, and i am cheering her on.
If you would like to see the movie of this book, heres a link to see it on netflix.
Really great post, this book is sure very interesting but at first I thought it was going to be a boring book to read but it totally wasn't. Reading it I couldn't put it down before I finished it then decided I would watch the movie also. If you get a chance to do that you totally should.
ReplyDeleteGood Post. It sounds like I am at a similar place as you in the book. It is an extremely interesting book. I hope finds he father too, so they don't lose the house. Ree, although uneducated, is a very tough girl and I do not want to underestimate her. I wasn't to sure but I thought she was 17 not 16, but I could be wrong. Anyways Good post I enjoyed reading it.
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