Comparing Journeys In Home And As I Lay Dying

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Did you know most girls who hit their puberty stages get extremely intimate over the boy they like? Consequently they end up taking birth control pills as their contraception. Those who aren't able to take birth control result in pregnancy. In Home and As I Lay Dying novels both talked about the main character's sister and demonstrated them in many different ways such as the family situations, the affairs, and lastly, the journeys. In the novel Home, Toni Morrison talks about a Korean veteran named Frank Money who got discharged from the army immediately escaped from the hospital he was jailed in as soon as he realized his dear sister, Cee Money who he had promised to protect was in danger. When he finally made it back to Lotus, he found his …show more content…
Cee did not enjoy her time living under the same roof with her step-grandmother. Cee was delivered in the Reverend Bailey's church basement. Lenore takes it as a bad sign so she tells Cee her life would be worthless as she was neither born in the roof of her own home nor the hospital but in the street. Cee did not have a good childhood experience. As years went by, Cee became furious with how much Lenore had made a slave out of her. When her brother, Frank Money and his friends got enlisted, Cee fell in love with a boy from Atlanta named Prince, who Lenore called "the first thing she saw wearing belted trousers instead of overalls" (Falkner 47). The egotistical man did not allow himself to take any jobs at Lotus so he took Cee with him to Atlanta. Cee looked forward to the big city as she left with Lenore's automobile promising she would return it if Lenore needed it. Cee's childhood experience about her grandmother demonstrates how she thinks of motherhood. Cee thinks grandmothers are supposedly kind to their grandchildren even though they've been hard on their own children. The author of the novel, Toni Morrison describes Lenore as a 'mean' grandmother, one of the worst things a girl could

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