d unnatural quiet. The shades on the two windows were drawn down completely to the sill. (6). Her feelings for Ike and Bobby are shown in the line, After a moment she turned again in the bed and studied the two thin pencils of light shining at the edge of the window shade. (7). We can see that Ike and Bobby are the only happiness in her life. We also see this in the line, the door swung inward slowly and there was their mother. . . . Yes, she said. Her voice was dry and flat, without inflection. Hello, Mother. Is something wrong? She cupped one hand over her eyes against the bright afternoon sun. (101). In that last line we see that Ike and Bobby are paralleled by the afternoon sun. There are many other times in the novel that a characters feelings are reflected in the environment.Victoria Roubideaux is a seventeen year old girl, who finds out that she is pregnant. She and her mother had a fight in the morning and in the evening, after work, she starts to walk home. The evening wasnt cold yet when the girl left the caf. But the air was turning sharp with a fall feeling of loneliness coming. Something unaccountable pending in the air. (31). In that line we see the foreshadowing of her feelings and her mother throwing her out of the house. Mrs.Stearns is a scatter-brained, but underneath kind older lady. She befriends Ike and Bobby, but only after a few times of trying to bring them out of their silence about their mother. Her personality is paralleled by her apartment. She shuffled back and they entered the apartment. The room was too hot. The heat was suffocating and the room crowded with all manner of things. Cardboard boxes. Papers. Piles of clothes. Yellowed stacks of newspaper. Flower pots. An oscillating fan. A box fan. A hat rack. (43). In that line we see what type of person Mrs.Sterns is.The relationship between Victoria and the McPheron brothers is shown in the landscape of their farm. It starts ...
