Re: JCO: Re: Black Water

I can relate to Jane in the sense that the fun of reading has slipped from me sometimes. After have Mrs Cleary last year for english, I learned how to find the deeper meanings in books. Dont get me wrong I love understanding the book symbolically but sometimes its better to just read. In this book, it seems as though she is intoxicated with the Senator. She may or may not have control but she definitly was not herself in the events. It seems very perculiar to me that she would not try and save herself. She sits as the car fills with water telling herself that he will come back for her and THEN she will swim to safety and rescue herself. Why does she wait for him? Why can she not fit herself through the space where he did (she is most likely smaller than him) and save herself? There may be an underlying message that Kelly is the characterization of the women of the world that cannot stand up for themselves. This seems to be a very common theme because I found it in You Must Remember This as Enid was very insecure with herself and allowed her uncle to take advantage of her.

 

Katie