"Where's the plantation?" John Wesley asked.
"Gone With the Wind" said the grandmother. "Ha. Ha."
Loved that, sick story. Reminded me of Chainsaw MASSACRE. Very creepy as we were introduced to these characters and connected by their love for each other and the humor the grandmother posses.
Around the end, i felt the fear of being the next person being walked into the woods. All i could think about was what the family was thinking about when walking down there.
I felt like this story was to much for me to really break it down to symbols of us judging people, i believe this was a great horror story and a great trick for Halloween.
Thanks.
2 comments:
Are the characters really "connected by their love for each other"? How/where see this "love" expressed in the story? It would seem to be the opposite--good illustration of a "dysfunctinal family." A more productive line(s) of inquiry might be: "Misfit" is ambiguous, here, right, and perhaps the greatest irony--is it the reverse of what we think? The criminal claims to be the "misfit"--but what is it that doesn't "fit" in the story? Could this partly be about world views that don't quite fit realities? What happens when different worlds collide? To a great extent, this is a story about values and world views--belief systems that sustain us, and how those may often be illusons--if not self-delusionary. Consider the grandmother as representing a kind of (deep South inflected) world view, and how that world view--what allows her to make sense of the world--is brutally ripped away--what's left? Consider some of the imagery toward the end of the story--description of the sky, what she sees as she looks up for the last time. Other image patterns in the story--such as red dust (characteristic of the Gerogia landscape), would also be worth pursuing... and a key image, at the turning point of the story, when the car is overturned-- from a symbolic pov., what's overturned?
Their lives are being overturned and the grandmothers beliefs....
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