Concentrating on a small part of her emotionally growth, Cary portrays herself as a hard working, young girl who stores a lot of her troubles within herself. Like most adolescences her age, she trusts no one. After Lorene Cary attended St. Paul’s for almost a year, she felt the pressure set in and removed herself from her busy life to comfort her fears. During this time, Cary regurgitates stories, which have influenced her core. From the stories, the one that allows us to understand why she is emotionally reserved is about a little girl, Izzy, and her father. Dealing with a traumatizing event this girl experiences and the powerful lesson that is implanted into her, it can be assumed that as a child, Cary could have taken this story seriousl

After much time, Izzy returned to the place, which taught her to trust and fail, which helped her realize the lessons she learned, the growth that took place, and her adolescent occurrences. Now she has come back after shedding her skin, and became Lorene Cary.

Within her writing of Black Ice, Cary displays her distrust for ‘man’, man in the sense of male, not people. Although it’s not directly stated, Cary’s story implies that she and her father do not have a strong relationship. His role was Dad. Cary never went into detail about how she felt about him only what could be seen on the surface. “Women looked at my father that way. Their attention seemed to affect him as naturally as sunshine – and he never talked too much.” (11) Unlike the way she wrote about her mother, Dad seemed almost invisible. Even her writing shows how insignificant her father’s role was to her. Using long sentences as if to fit all his details into one area and be done with him, she also uses non-descript adjectives to describe him. The only praise she gives him is for his black belt in karate. She talks about traveling to tournaments, her father’s determination, although he loses, and how with his karate skills he helps ward off men in her life. Other then those subtle references to her father, Cary’s Dad are a quiet man.

When this story is told, Lorene Cary is talking about herself. She is Izzy. Cary was that little girl who fell and from that point on learned to trust no man.

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