Winter's Bone!

Drugs abuse leads to violence, separation of parents and children, loss of jobs, feelings of hopelessness, serious money problems, single parenthood, and anxiety over childcare needs, bad relationships, and emotional and behavioral difficulties in children. All these things happened in the book Winter’s Bone. When reading this story it made me see how badly someone life can really change if their parent is addicted to a drug. This girl Ree could have had everything in life by joining the military but she gave it all up because she wanted to help her family. She become the mother and father to her siblings and showed them things that she didn’t have to do.

This book shows things that happen in life today, there are so many children that have to grow up and take care of their siblings because either both parents do drugs or they lost one parent from drugs and the other parent works just so they can survive. Even through everyone thinks girls can’t do anything Ree really showed people she could, she showed her siblings how to do the things they would need to survive. When things get bad and she about to lose the only home she has she takes things into her own hands and tries to find her father so they don’t lose their home.

It’s truly sad that this girl had to go through this and having no one there she could ask for help. It’s nice that the neighbors gave them food but I think Ree would of made sure that her siblings had something to eat. She became very independent because of the situation she was in, and it made her very think headed to, when that cop took the boys home from the bus stop she about had a fit. She didn’t want to have to rely on anyone and thought she could do anything just to help her family. She also never showed emotion when she thought she couldn’t handle things. Children that have to go through this everyday is just really sad and they should have someone out there to turn to because they shouldn’t have to grow up so fast even though it could help them with things further in life.

http://www.truthmove.org/news-category/drugs/2/

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell - Little, Brown and Company (2007)

Methland

Don’t really know if I will write about Methland but it seems like a really interesting story. It’s about a heroic story of the small town of Oelwein, lowa and though it the story of drug abouse in Rural America. With a lot of job losses Oelwein become one of the most drug trafficking cites. Nick Reding is the one that wrote this story and what I am thinking he meant by this story is that he wanted people to see that people really did this when they had no other means to support themselves. It’s really crazy that towns were really like this but I totally believe it because you see a lot of it online.

How does this story relate to winter bone’s, the main reason is drugs. The father was doing drugs and end up getting killed because of it. A lot of people try it once and that’s when they get hooked and do it a lot. Family get destroyed because a person decides that drugs are more then there family. I know that is true because my family has been broken up because of it. It’s just really sad that it happens that way children are truly the ones that get hurt because when someone on drugs they do some really stupid things.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/books/review/Kirn-t.html?_r=1

Winter's Bone

When I read the title I thought this book was going to be boring but you can’t judge a book by its cover so I started reading and I actually started liking it. It’s a little sad being the children had to do everything because the dad was doing things he shouldn’t and the mom seemed to be really sick. One part that seemed interesting to me is when the boy was hoping the people next to them would give them food and the girl told him never asks for something that should be offered. When she says the police car come up the road and saw her brothers in the car she was scared and wanted to know why her brothers were in the car. When she found out that they just got a ride because school was closed she was still upset and didn’t want them riding with the law. When she found out that her dad was on bond and that if he didn’t show up to his court case they could lose the house she was very upset. If they lost the house she would never get away from her family and join the military. She would have to stay and take care of them because there would be no one else to help them. This girl had to grow up faster then any child should and that’s really bad, she couldn’t do things that she wanted and dreamed of doing.

http://mrereviews.omnimystery.com/winters-bone.html