The Bone People- Relationships
Relationships surround us all though out lift. Everyone needs some type of relationship, whether it's a friendship, family, or lover. People can't last without them, no matter how different the relationships are. In the novel The Bone People, it's based on the relationships between the three main characters; Kerewin, Joe and Simon.
The relationship between Kerewin and Joe was very odd. They have a type of relationship that they aren't even sure about, they like each other, but don't realize it. It's starts off with Joe asking Kerewin: "Are you afraid of kissing," and Kerewin answers "I don't like kissing." (pg: 265) It's both a strange question and answer. Then later on in the page, Joe keeps on the topic by saying:
"I thought maybe someone had been bad to you in the past, and
that was why you don't like people touching or holding you."
"Ah damn it to hell," she bangs the lamp down on the desk
and the flame jumps wildly.
"I said no. I haven't been raped or jilted or abused in any fashion.
There's nothing in my background to explain the way I am." She
steadies her voice, taking the impatience out of it. "I'm the odd one
out, the peculiarity in my family, because they're all normal and
demonstrative physically." (pg: 265)
Joe is Sharing with Kerewin his feelings about family, and childhood. "I've often thought that maybe what happens to you as a child determines everything about you. What you are and what you do, a...
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