One character in the book that had changed The most in my opinion was T-Ray Owens. We all knew him as an unloving, uncaring jerk, that abused his dead wife and daughter. Throughout the book T-Ray punishes Lily over small things and always accused her of lying. He made her kneel on grits for over an hour because he caught her outside after dark and assumed she was with a boy. He always pushed Lily around and was known for fighting with Lily’s mother. The day Lily’s mother was accidentally killed, T-Ray was arguing with her. When Lily and Rosaleen got into trouble in the city T-Ray let everyone disrespect Rosaleen because he didn’t wanna step in. He threatened Lily when her and Rosaleen ran off to Tiburon, South Carolina. Over the chapters, he
