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Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
In Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping Lucille searches normalcy and her own sense of agency after living as a "wild child" with no morals after her grandmother died and mom commits suicide, leaving Ruth and Lucille to have a their aunt sylvie to take care of them. Before sylvie came to fingerbone, she previously was a transient, with no rules and living life to the fullest. Lucille begins to believe that the life that she has is not the life that she wants, she begins to take action so she can become a beautiful young women and not end up like sylvie. "Find quote where she wants to move away from fingerbone and become someone" whereas ruthie finds sylvie to be of a role model to her and following her lead and becoming the best of friends.
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