A. Please write specifically about Mary's feelings about her grandmother. What are some of her grandmother's habits? What does she suffer from? What does she think about Mary and Lecia? What does she reveal to Mary about Mary's mother?

If you cannot remember the answers to these questions, don't despair. Write as much as you can about the relationship.

B. Briefly, What causes Mary and her family to run from Leechfield? What happens on the bridge

Answers
A. Mary does not speak to highly of her grandmother. She notes on some of her positive qualities and her strength but she typically did not have the best ways of showing love or affection. Her grandmother never sugarcoated her opinions and she said exactly how she felt. She openly stated her distaste for Mary's father and she demanded a great deal out of her grandchildren. She made some cruel remarks about Mary's inability to tie shoes at a young age and about the way Mary and Lecia were raised. Her grandmother suffered from cancer and first had her toe nail removed, then the toe, then foot, and up to her entire leg. The cancer ate away at her grandmother's body and mind. Mary's grandmother does not like the way Mary and Lecia are brought up. She tries to change their whole style of living, from eating to hygene and this causes Mary to become a nervous nail bitter. Her good attempts to improove their way of life just went south. Her grandmother told Mary and Lecia that they were disobediant children and desirved to be shipped away. Mary's Grandmother tells them that they have siblings from their mother's previous marriages.

B. Mary and her family are forced out of Leechfield due to a deadly hurricaine . Her grandmother ignored warnings of the hurricane so Lecia called their father to remove them from the site that would soon be ravaged by the hurricane, however the phone line dropped dead and a guardsman had to remove them from their house. He forced their grandmother to go with them and they all climbed in the car to try to find refuge. They where attempting to go to their Aunts house to get away from the storm but on the bridge to leave town they got into a car accident due to Mary's mother's "nervousness."