“Knowing now I would never be alone again never lonely again as in those years God allowed me to be thus as if He did not exist forcing onto me the bitter knowledge that he did not exist in truth or if He did His existence touched in no way upon my own.” (Foxfire 45)
While religion should serve as a guide for Maddy, it ultimately leads to her own alienation until she joins FOXFIRE. Before she met Legs and the other original members of the gang, she was an outcast who was lonely. She blames God for her being lonely because, at that time, religion was her guide that trapped her in a state of alienation. However, she also felt abandoned by him because she did not have any living companionship with her. Even her family who ought to care for her …show more content…
“...so one of us would try to calm her down saying these were just special cases, these maniacs and murderers, and Legs would interrupt saying angrily, ‘No it’s all of them: men. It’s a state of undeclared war, them hating us, men hating us no matter our age or who the hell we are but nobody wants to admit it, not even us,’ she’d get so worked up there was no reasoning with her and it made us nervous ‘cause like I said (and this is true right up to the present time in America) there are things you don’t want to think about if you’re female, say you’re a young girl or woman you’re female and that isn’t going to change, right?” (Foxfire …show more content…
She acknowledges that men are the Enemy and she is okay with that. The violent acts that men commit come from their species, Homo sapiens. It is in their blood to kill and be violent because that is what they love. However, when women begin acting in the same way as men and attacking women, it is unexpected and wrong. Legs detests women who behave in violent ways against their own kind and her saying this to Maddy is purposeful. Her statement serves both as an observation that FOXFIRE should acknowledge when avenging violence and a warning for the gang as a whole to keep serving justice to all men because of the actions of a few.
5. “Yes we perceived our actions as justified, for so they were. Yes we perceived ourselves in a state of UNDECLARED WAR. MEN ARE THE ENEMY! FOXFIRE BURNS & BURNS!” (Foxfire
While religion should serve as a guide for Maddy, it ultimately leads to her own alienation until she joins FOXFIRE. Before she met Legs and the other original members of the gang, she was an outcast who was lonely. She blames God for her being lonely because, at that time, religion was her guide that trapped her in a state of alienation. However, she also felt abandoned by him because she did not have any living companionship with her. Even her family who ought to care for her …show more content…
“...so one of us would try to calm her down saying these were just special cases, these maniacs and murderers, and Legs would interrupt saying angrily, ‘No it’s all of them: men. It’s a state of undeclared war, them hating us, men hating us no matter our age or who the hell we are but nobody wants to admit it, not even us,’ she’d get so worked up there was no reasoning with her and it made us nervous ‘cause like I said (and this is true right up to the present time in America) there are things you don’t want to think about if you’re female, say you’re a young girl or woman you’re female and that isn’t going to change, right?” (Foxfire …show more content…
She acknowledges that men are the Enemy and she is okay with that. The violent acts that men commit come from their species, Homo sapiens. It is in their blood to kill and be violent because that is what they love. However, when women begin acting in the same way as men and attacking women, it is unexpected and wrong. Legs detests women who behave in violent ways against their own kind and her saying this to Maddy is purposeful. Her statement serves both as an observation that FOXFIRE should acknowledge when avenging violence and a warning for the gang as a whole to keep serving justice to all men because of the actions of a few.
5. “Yes we perceived our actions as justified, for so they were. Yes we perceived ourselves in a state of UNDECLARED WAR. MEN ARE THE ENEMY! FOXFIRE BURNS & BURNS!” (Foxfire