Relationship between T-Ray and Lily
"I'm staying here," I said. "I'm not leaving." The words hung there, hard and gleaming. Like pearls I'd been fashioning down inside my belly for weeks.
"What did you say?"
"I said I'm not leaving."
"You think I'm gonna walk out of here and leave you? I don't even know these damn people." He struggled to make his words forceful enough. The anger has been washed out of him when he'd dropped the knife.
"I know them." I said. "August Boatwright is a good person."
pg 296
T-Ray had found where Lily was staying and he came to try and take her. Lily was alone in the house when he came and he started getting really angry and yelling at her and then he slapped her across the face. He said he was taking her home. I think this passage is important because Lily is able to stand of for herself against T-Ray. I think she finially feels like she has a place where she feels safe and she is loved. Her father says he doesn't know them, but instead of just giving in Lily stands up for them and herself. She doesn't care that she is staying with colored people. I think she just wants to be happy, she doesn't want to have to keep pleasing T-Ray, who she feels like doesn't love her. What do you think about T-Rays' relationship with Lily? Do you think he loves her?
Hannah Anderson
2 comments:
Hannah: great question! I wonder whether Lily reminds T-Ray of Lily's mother/his wife, and that this pain is so hard to bear, that it comes out as anger.
I agree with Julia. (I didn't even look at hers before I commented on hannahs. Great minds think alike, Julia!)
I think that T-Ray's relationship with Lily is more complicated than just him hating her. I think that he loves her "deep down" but is too caught up is his feelings of anger, hate over Lily's mother. I think that he is taking out that anger on Lily. He cares for her but doesn't really know how to control his anger. "When T-Ray turned back ,he fastened his eyes on me, and there was nothing in them but a sea of hurt. He looked at the pin on my shirt. "You look like her," he said, and him saying that, I knew he'd said everything." page 296
I don't agree with T-Ray at all and this doesn't mean that I like him anymore as a character but everyone, whoever mean or hurtful, has some human in them.
Sara L.
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