My first reactions on reading this story was that it was going to be about some church girl and how something that was impossible was going to happen to her. It was so unexpected when it said that her mother was a heroine addict and her church were very strict on the rules they had. If I was that girl, I would have run away a long time ago. I think her grandmother should have been a little lenient for her because she is just a child and she needs to have fun. Since the grandmother was not lenient she went off to go find her mother and ended up in a bad place that she couldn't get out of. Maybe the grandmother was teaching her a lesson, but that was a bad lesson for Tia. I didn't like the ending of the story. All of a sudden it just ended with Tia running away from Dezi. It gives you no clue if she made it back home or not. I really wish it would have told me if she did or not.
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HAHA During the first like 3 pages I made the assumption that the story was going to go along about this life these girls were living. Where they couldn't say, do, wear, or act a certain way because of what their so called "beliefs" were. It sounded like a cult to me. But as the story progressed I was like, WHOA! HAHA I had no idea the story would talk about drugs, prostitutes, and rape! Interesting story! Bye WOMAN!
I was also shocked to find that Tia's mother was a heroine addict. I also didn't like the ending, I didn't know if she completly got away from Dezi or not...it just ended with her running away from him.
I never thought the story was going to progess from the Tia who goes to church...to the someone who is introduced to violence, drugs and prostitutes.
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I thought that it was gonna be a really weird/ boring story too...but I ended up loving it! I actually really liked the ending because it showed that even though people dont think of prostitutes as great people, they were still willing to help her.
I agree on somewhat of a level. One thing you do have to realize is that tradition southern baptists are a lot like that. I know I grew up with both my grandparents being so. I really wasn't supprised that the mother was a heroine addict. I saw it as a way of trying to escape reallity.
Ya, I thought that her church was kind of ridiculous, and I was frustrated by the ending as well.
It bugs my so much that these societies, such as the Mormons in Utah and the Amish shield their children from the world all in the intentions of upholding their morals, but the way I look at it, this isn't moral in itself. These people imprison and brain-wash their kids in their own little utopia with no free will or chance to see outside. I think this is extremely wrong.
I thought the exact same thing! I was so mad that we were reading another story about god, but it definately proved to be more than that. I can't imagine being apart of a church like that, it just seems so unusual.
I had the same reaction, becauese at first I thought that the story was going to be really boring about some church girl and about how strict and boring her life was but then it transfromed into this crazy story which really threw me off and it turned out to be a really sad tale.
yea I thought the story was just going to go on about her being bored and dealing with her grandma and the nun and was happy that she went out and had an adventure. It obviously was a horrible experience, but kept my attention better than the Bartlby story anyway. I'll agree that the ending wasn't amazing, but at least she got away.
I think there might have actually been a clue about how Tia ended up. It doesn’t necessarily mean she went home (and it might not mean anything), but I noticed that the second to last line of the story, before Tia ran, may be symbolic: “Tia stood up and brushed gravel and broken glass from her skirt.” Obviously she had just fallen, but I thought maybe it could symbolize that she was brushing away the bad things she had encountered in Atlanta (she wouldn’t forget them, but she would separate herself from them)—the gravel being the unclean things, the broken glass being incidents that caused her pain. If interpreted this way it sounds as though Tia’s future may be hopeful, even if she didn’t return home.
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