-This image shows how much of an impact the sight of her grandmother with the red liquid and ants had on Mary. This could emphasize the building of tension in Mary's family and also show that even though Mary's grandmother has passed on, she still has not recovered from the pain she has caused her and that it might impact her for the rest of her life.
2. "He also said that it wasn't the coldness of a dead man's skin that gave you the willies but how the skin went hard all over so that touching him was like touching wood or concrete." p.104
-This image created was said by Mary's father and it shows how much of an impact that his mentality had on his daughter. Her father was not afraid to speak honestly and bluntly about the nature of life and death and this had a profound impact on Mary in her nature to speak bluntly about life as well.
3. "He had his black swim trunks on and black basketball Keds. He's put on a red Lone Star baseball cap and was slipping into his blue work shirt while he came toward us. He had the easy glide of men who labor for an hourly wage, a walk that wasted no effort and refused to rush. His barrel chest and legs were pale. THere was a wide blood colored scar up one shin where one of Lee Gleason's quarter horses had thrown daddy......He had an amused squint on his face."p. 110
- THis in depth description shows that Mary wants to savor every moment that she spends with her father down to the very last detail. She wants to keep his exact image with her and so she describes him down to the details of his scars because she wants to keep him with her forever.
4. "I'd never seen a shark up close before, and what struck me was how chinless it was, its mouth drawn low down where its neck should have been. This gave it a deep snaggle toothed frown and kept him from looking very smart..."p. 111
- This description of the shark seemed to be similar to the ways she described her grandmother and It seems as if she is identifying the shark she is seeing wither her grandmother because of how cruel her grandmother was.5. "I spied a huge cabbage-headed jellyfish on the sand. It was a dull white color. It looked like a free-floating brain knocked out of somebody's skull. p.114
- I noticed that Mary always described things in a very negative light and makes a great deal of references to death. Hence, associating the jellyfish to a brain knocked out of a skull. She is very dark in her descriptions even before knowing an outcome as good or bad.
6. "I was getting that tight buckled-down feeling in my stomach like I's had during the hurricane. I wrapped my arms around my knees, bowed my head, and prayed to a god I didn't trust a prayer that probably went like this: Please let Lecia not die. Make Daddy think of something fast. Don't let them chop off her leg either....But all of a sudden there was that humming noise again, running underneath the prayer like an electrical current in my head." p. 115
-It seems as if Mary is developing some sort of anxiety through this description of the humming she is hearing. Its obvious that she loves her sister and doesn't want anything bad to happen to her sister. Also, does she associate a sort of evilness in losing a leg because her grandmother was missing a leg because of cancer and she was a heartless person?
7. "Ahead of us, in the green water, I can see Lecia's pale white feet like the neon tailfin of a mermaid slipping away just out of reach"p. 117
-Mary shows an obvious fear of losing her sister by the image of this dream. She wants her sister with her. She also associates her sister with something beautiful because she associates her with a mermaid.
8. "What's rolling around in my head at this time is all the dying and near dying I've run into lately. I can picture Grandma the way I found her all slack-jawed in the bed, then Lecia glassy-eyed on the sand. For a minute, I even think about Mother propped up in her bed night and day next to a tower of books that only seems to get taller and more wobbly. Then it's her face slack jawed I see in place of Gramdma's, her arms hanging down that the ants are running on."p. 124
-Mary is extremely traumatized by the deaths and injuries that have occurred around her. She is envisioning her mother in the same fashion as her grandmother before she died. This could be a foreboding of her mother's death or also that her mother is turning more evil just as her grandmother.
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