ther and I know how difficult they can be sometimes. I found it kind of funny that the father turns out to be gay.FireBernadine decides that she needs time alone so she drives her two kids to her mothers house. Although the kids dislike going to their grandmas house because they have so many rules there, they don’t mind because they get to miss school. When Bernadine arrives back at home she finally builds enough courage to go into the house. She realizes how much order there is in the house from the books in alphabetical order and the clothes set by color and brand. She grabs all of John’s clothes and dumps them into the BMW, making three trips back and forth. She rolls the car into the driveway and lights it on fire. Not interested in watching it burn she goes inside and falls asleep. She is awoken by the fire department and they tell her that it is illegal to burn such bulky items on their property. For the next four days she stays home and doesn’t shower, brush and hardly eat. After the fifth day she realizes what she has done and decides to get back in order. She gathered all of John’s stuff and puts them in garbage bags, there was so much that she got the idea to have a garage sale. She remembered that Savanna was coming to stay with her and that would cheer her up. Bernadine called her mother and informed her that she would pick up the kids. When they got home they got ready for the garage sale and by 7a.m. in the morning had all of his things out on the pavement. People were shocked how cheap things where and in about two hours they had made one-hundred and sixty eight dollars and everything was sold.I think it is funny that she burned all of John’s cloths. I probably would have done the same thing or at least give the cloths to good will. It is understandable that her actions were intense because she gave up 11 years of her life. I think she should have sold the other thing for more too. Damn she l...
