http://www.mancouch.com/734752184/gender-roles-in-todays-relationships/
Winter's Bone is a story based around a sixteen year old girl's quest to find her
methamphetamine cooking father, who put up the family's house for bail. If Ree is unable
to get her father to his court date, the family will lose their house and land. To add more to Ree's
responsibilities, she must carefor her crazy mother who sits in a chair all day in her own space of
suspended reality and her two preadolescence brothers who she teaches how to shoot squirrels. In
Ree's quest to locate her father she comes up against her clan, the Dolly clan. The Dolly men for
generations have been cookers of crank. They live by their form of hillbilly law. One is true to
the clan and never asks questions or goes against the clan without ramifications. Woodrell uses
Ree and Jessup to expose his disdain for traditional gender roles and authority. Ree and Jessup
must defy the hillbilly law they live by just as Woodrell defied authority in his life.
Works Cited
Williams, John."Daniel Woodrell: The Ozark daredevil."The Independent 16 June 2006.Web.
1 July.2012. http://www.independent.com.uk/arts-entertainment/books/feature/daniel-woodrell- the-ozark-daredevile-html.
Woodrell,Daniel. Winter's Bone.New York:Bay Back Books. Little, Brown and Company.
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Very interesting take on the story, your thesis is not an issue I had previously considered. I will keep your thoughts on gender roles in mind the next time I read on this subject.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with the authority issue. In the backwoods they had their own hierarchy and followed their own set of laws. I don’t see the gender issue as clearly. Granted it was women who beat up Ree, but if Ree had been a man I don’t think the women would have done the deed. Good start!
ReplyDeleteThats awesome. I have in the past been going on the gender role issues and its neat to see someone else that these types of issues standout to as well. I didn't go this way with my thesis however I am happy to see somebody did. It has actually been a little difficult for me to come up with thesis ideas for I tend to take things to a more personal level. Hope it goes well.
ReplyDeleteThat is very interesting. Boy those hilbillies know how to live! What a miserable existence. I really haven't been very sesative to gender roles. I sure can understand a woman's opposition to the "barefoot and pregnant" analogy. These poor girls in Winter's Bone would have run for the nearest highway out of town if it wasn't for all the family members that relied on them.
ReplyDeleteKathryn, very interesting thesis statement! I love how you used the idea of gender roles to relate to this story. I think this is a great thesis statement and creates opinions from the audience who might disagree with your idea.
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