VLVL Prairie

[jbor]

> However, to look at it from Prairie's pov, the band,
> and her relationship with Isaiah, represents the past she has just emerged
> from. To go back would be a retrograde step.

I don't think this is correct. It's certainly not in the text. And, her
relationship with Isaiah is still solid.

Prairie's 14, she's been turned out of her home, she's on the run, federal
government agents are after her, her mother is in some terrible danger, and
no-one will tell her anything. Her father has sent her off with her
coke-snorting boyfriend to a Mafia wedding (for her safety!), where she
coincidentally runs into an old friend of her mother's. This old friend of
Frenesi's and the Mafia don throwing the bash confirm for her that the shit
she's in is deep indeed, and still DL won't tell her what it's all about.

Real nice.

It's difficult to fathom the situation or take it all seriously because many
of the characters are often cartoonish (Prairie is perhaps the exception),
the situations are so exaggerated, and the tone of the narration is flip or
offhand for the most part, but that's pretty much how it stands for the
girl. And, she tells DL all the details of the situation straight up
(100.17-20). Still DL holds her tongue. Prairie's not "one of those kids on
Phil Donahue" at all, and DL knows it. After confiding *everything* about
her predicament to DL this outburst (103.21-25) illustrates Prairie's
frustration at the fact that DL hasn't told her anything, and it conveys
something of the real desperation the girl is feeling. Little wonder that DL
can no longer look her in the eye (103.28).

All things considered, however, Prairie's much more together than DL is, or
any other of the "adult" characters for that matter.

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