Foxfire: the novel
.Foxfire
Foxfire is a page turning novel about a newly formed girl’s gang in the 1950’s. This story is written by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Penguin Group, and has 316 pages. This is a vivid novel and is a great read. On a rating scale of one to five, I would defiantly say this is a five! It gives amazing details that makes you believe you are in the 50’s watching these rebellious girls making their own rules and doing as they please. Margaret Ann Sadovsky, called ‘Legs’ by her gang sisters, is first in command to the girl gang called Foxfire. She has the appearance of a young boy. Not including her platinum blond hair that is always in tangles, she is muscular, thin, flat chested and always wearing men’s cloths. She is the most rebellious out of all the girls in Foxfire. She mostly rebels against men who have done any women wrong. She gets revenge by having her and her gang ‘sisters’ do something like spray paint profanity on their cars so people laugh when they see it, and it runs them out of town for good. Legs can’t be brought down by any adult, especially male. She doesn’t take orders from anyone. She is the leader of her own gang, and she’s the only one who gets to give the orders. As a ruthless leader she does some very crazy things. Even in the beginning before they started the gang she ran away from her grandmother’s to her friend Maddy’s and began living with her father, who always has a different girlfriend and was never sober. She ended up in jail or a ‘Girls Correctional Facility’ for borrowing a car and going for a ride that ended up in a high speed chase with a cop. In that time while she was separated from her gang, she went from rebel inmate to a goody-goody to the rest of the girls at the facility. She got tired of being locked in solitary and having her time there extended.
Most of the things that Legs did were for the benefit of her sisters in Foxfire. For example, she wasn’t afraid of any male gang in her
Foxfire is a page turning novel about a newly formed girl’s gang in the 1950’s. This story is written by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Penguin Group, and has 316 pages. This is a vivid novel and is a great read. On a rating scale of one to five, I would defiantly say this is a five! It gives amazing details that makes you believe you are in the 50’s watching these rebellious girls making their own rules and doing as they please. Margaret Ann Sadovsky, called ‘Legs’ by her gang sisters, is first in command to the girl gang called Foxfire. She has the appearance of a young boy. Not including her platinum blond hair that is always in tangles, she is muscular, thin, flat chested and always wearing men’s cloths. She is the most rebellious out of all the girls in Foxfire. She mostly rebels against men who have done any women wrong. She gets revenge by having her and her gang ‘sisters’ do something like spray paint profanity on their cars so people laugh when they see it, and it runs them out of town for good. Legs can’t be brought down by any adult, especially male. She doesn’t take orders from anyone. She is the leader of her own gang, and she’s the only one who gets to give the orders. As a ruthless leader she does some very crazy things. Even in the beginning before they started the gang she ran away from her grandmother’s to her friend Maddy’s and began living with her father, who always has a different girlfriend and was never sober. She ended up in jail or a ‘Girls Correctional Facility’ for borrowing a car and going for a ride that ended up in a high speed chase with a cop. In that time while she was separated from her gang, she went from rebel inmate to a goody-goody to the rest of the girls at the facility. She got tired of being locked in solitary and having her time there extended.
Most of the things that Legs did were for the benefit of her sisters in Foxfire. For example, she wasn’t afraid of any male gang in her