Good, Brother is...
- Brotherhood, family
- Coming of age. A delicate dance between doing boy things and doing man things.
- Clinging to a dying past; a struggle to keep home, home.
- Long, repetitive, cleverly interwoven sentences that drag the reader from scene to scene mercilessly by her hair.
- Poetry? Probably prose poetry.
- An examination and exploration of womanhood. Girl is larger
than life, and she takes the brothers on journeys.
- Violence- an extension of boyhood (it is as if the protagonists struggle to tear everything down just to build it back up again, to see what’s on the inside).
- Girl- Hope, growth (sometimes literally), god, faith,
spirituality, love, comfort.
- Woman (mother)- Enemy of mud, change, the unknown, death.
- Father- Grown up boy.
- Dark, gothic; Southern gothic?
- Lord of the Flies-esque?
Good, Brother is not...
- Concise
- "An easy read"
- Light
- To be taken for surface value. The symbols are not few and are not stagnant; they change with the development of the brothers (example: mud is mud, lifeblood, creation, destruction...)
- A traditional text
- One story
- Linear
- A book I will read again in full; though I find myself reading excerpts from time to time.
