Compare And Contrast And Missy
p. 1-2
Newt and Missy are FOIL characters
Newt dropped out of school and got a girl pregnant
Missy wants to graduate and not get pregnant whatsoever
Similar in a way that they were both born into hardships and fighting to “land on their feet”
p. 2
Missy is not like the typical stereotype of a woman
She fishes where all the men chew tobacco
“You couldn’t have said, anyways, which one would stay right where he was, and who would be the one to get away,”
This foreshadows that Missy will be the one to stray away from home because we shortly after learn that Newt stays
p. 3-4
The town that Missy describes sounds like nobody leaves home and marry people from their high school
p. 4-5
Missy is more like a boy stereotype than the girl stereotype …show more content…
7
Jolene is the mother to Newts baby
p. 8
How did Newt die?
Didn’t he shoot Jolene?
Did his father kill him?
p. 9
Things aren’t always what they seem like behind closed doors
Missy didn’t think that Newts father would hit Newt, Jolene, and the baby because he was deaf. However, the father took it further than just beating on them to actually killing his own son.
p. 10
Missy’s mom is really accepting of Missy and her accomplishments and never asks for more than what Missy can do
This kind of contrasts my idea of what Newts dad would be like because I feel that since he killed his son, then he wasn’t really accepting of anything that Newt had done
p. 11
The writing on the water tower represents how people in Missys town don’t have big goals and don’t have any idea what they want in the future.
Buying the volkswagen represents how Missy has bigger dreams (like leave the town and never come back) and knows what she is going to do in the future.
She has the bigger picture
NOTE: Missy’s new name is Taylor
p. 14
Because there were no trees in Oklahoma (no God) it shows that she isn’t going to stay
Newt and Missy are FOIL characters
Newt dropped out of school and got a girl pregnant
Missy wants to graduate and not get pregnant whatsoever
Similar in a way that they were both born into hardships and fighting to “land on their feet”
p. 2
Missy is not like the typical stereotype of a woman
She fishes where all the men chew tobacco
“You couldn’t have said, anyways, which one would stay right where he was, and who would be the one to get away,”
This foreshadows that Missy will be the one to stray away from home because we shortly after learn that Newt stays
p. 3-4
The town that Missy describes sounds like nobody leaves home and marry people from their high school
p. 4-5
Missy is more like a boy stereotype than the girl stereotype …show more content…
7
Jolene is the mother to Newts baby
p. 8
How did Newt die?
Didn’t he shoot Jolene?
Did his father kill him?
p. 9
Things aren’t always what they seem like behind closed doors
Missy didn’t think that Newts father would hit Newt, Jolene, and the baby because he was deaf. However, the father took it further than just beating on them to actually killing his own son.
p. 10
Missy’s mom is really accepting of Missy and her accomplishments and never asks for more than what Missy can do
This kind of contrasts my idea of what Newts dad would be like because I feel that since he killed his son, then he wasn’t really accepting of anything that Newt had done
p. 11
The writing on the water tower represents how people in Missys town don’t have big goals and don’t have any idea what they want in the future.
Buying the volkswagen represents how Missy has bigger dreams (like leave the town and never come back) and knows what she is going to do in the future.
She has the bigger picture
NOTE: Missy’s new name is Taylor
p. 14
Because there were no trees in Oklahoma (no God) it shows that she isn’t going to stay