... of what a family should be. Late in her time, as her life was drawing to a close, Pearl Tull laid in her bed with her "favorite" child, Ezra, nearby. Pearl had become almost completely blind and was about to die, but while her eyes could not see her mind was sharp as a needle. ... Beck she is now doing to her children. After his mother's death Cody would say that Beck "left them with a raving, shrieking, unpredictable witch" (294). Pearl apparently unknowing to her had a short fuse; she would explode at any moment with a fury of anger at her children. In a moment of rage Pearl once said...

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