Cultural Preferences In Unquiet Earth By Denise Giardina

As pros and cons are usually weighed throughout life, there are definite do’s amongst life but there are either cultural preferences that are present. In the “Unquiet Earth” we see this revelation of one of the notorious sexual acts regcognized by us more than insest. Denise Giardina introduces this theme to begin with the story with two distant cousins living in a small poor town. As her writing continues through a slow manner, Giardina puts the characters Dillon and Rachel with their love story around an accidental attraction as kids to a driving theme in the story to play out their affairs in life. Still the bounding humanity aspect that says no to this taboo is shown to the children as their interest grow.

Dillion, one of the main characters of the story, is one of a self-patriotic vigilante (if this were a comic) carrying out his life in a manner that presents no investment in other people’s time. Not to say he is what he envies, another person’s requirement of him to be responsible, he has a sense of what it means to be kind and helpful though it almost seems indifferent to him as indeed necessary. As he may seem like a complicated guy, Dillion proves to us that he can handle the stress that life requires of one person, more than his
They often played with their love story more so during their teen years. Defining their feelings through actually having sex with each other. As we go through these passages that take place during 1946-1951, Dillion clearly states the way he loves Rachel so much so he would even tell his mother. For any normal person looking at this from the inside, it is obvious they are already too deep into their affairs. Giardina even describes Rachel’s feeling towards their act as an “adultress” relating so to her incestual relationship interfering with her love for Tony. Here we see a true aspect of Dillon when he calls her “Tony” out of humor for the