... as I stared at the mutilated insect, wasn't pity; it was closer to a lost word between revulsion and desire. I wanted to put the praying mantis into my mouth" (133). Only when her brother comes and yells at her calling her actions disgusting, does she realize what she is doing. She starts to hate Boyd Ellison ... occurrence, so astonishing that for a long time the people who lived there felt somehow responsible, as if they should have foreseen something so unforeseen. Like my mother, they felt guilty for ever having felt secure" (116). Everyone is also very focused on the Watergate scand...

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