An end to Bone

The main conflict in Bastard out of Carolina was man vs. man. The climax of the story happened the night Daddy Glen decided to rape Bone in the hospital parking lot. This is where the story took a turn for the worst. After this all you read  about is the downfall of Bone and her emotions and everything that she has to go through, which is when the conflict also turns into man vs. self. The conflict in this book is never revolved. At the end of the book Bone gets beat and raped very badly by Glen. Her mother walks in and finds her and takes her to the hospital. After that you see Bone and her mother “trying” to work things out. But at the end of the story Bone’s mother just decides to go back to Glen even after all that he did to Bone.

Bone also changed throughout this book drastically. In the beginning she was just a normal little girl doing things that a little girl would do . But after Daddy Glen rapes her she starts to become hard inside. Her whole attitude and personality change. She becomes meaner and her face becomes harder and angrier. She closes her self off to people and to the world. She doesn’t want to allow anyone in because she just knows they’ll disappoint her. When the rapping’s start Bone also just lets them happened and she doesn’t yell or try to get away. This continues throughout the book until the last rape scene. At this point Bone just doesn’t care anymore and she decides that she is going to try and fight. When Daddy Glen is attacking her she talks back to him, she stabs him with  a knife and she trys to yell to get someone’s attention. At the end I think Bone learned that she has to stand up for herself and she has to move on and start a new life. She also learned not to expect much from people and that life is going to disappoint her. (Not a very good discovery I might add). The one thing I was surprised about at the end was that Bone’s mother goes back to Daddy Glen. Actually I can’t say I was surprised but I am just disappointed that the mother would do that to her own daughter. What kind of mother goes back to someone who beats, rapes and wants to kill her daughter.