Bastard out of Carolina:Showing abuse children there is hope
...son did not go into such detail, it would have taken away from the book. Some parents complained because of “sexually graphic passages on incest, rape and masturbation.” (Victoria) These are issues that children in rural and urban areas like Greenville have to deal with. Making the passages not graphic would make them seem unrealistic and non-existent. “It made me afraid, his big hand between my legs and his eyes glittering in the dim light… His hand was hard, the ridge of his wristbone pushing in and hurting me. I looked straight ahead through the windshield, too afraid to cry, or shake, or wiggle, too afraid to move at all… his hand dug in further. He was holding himself in his fingers, I knew what was under his hand… but this was a mystery, scary and hard… he grunted, squeezed my thighs between his arm and his legs. His chin pressed down on my head and his hips pushed up at the same time. He was hurting me, hurting me!” (Allison 46-47) This is an example of the detail Allison puts into the rape scenes. She does not leave out one detail. If these scenes were not in detail then you would not get the full emotional effect of rape. Rape is a horrible thing to ever happen to a person. This book clearly shows that and shows that it is not the child’s fault. “I hugged myself tightly to the tree and rocked my hips against the indifferent trunk. I imagined I was tied to the branches above me and below me. Someone had beaten me with dry sticks and put there hands in my cloths. Someone, someone I imagined. Someone had tied me high up in the tree, gagged me and left me to starve to death while black birds pecked at my ears.” (Allison 176) This masturbation scene is showing how the beatings are affecting her life and mental state. This quote is a perfect example of how Daddy Glen has changed her life. She is masturbating to fantasies of someone beating her and leaving her alone to die. These are such lonely depressing fantasies and no child should be fantasizing about these things. Bone brings up many qu...