Interim

[Toby G Levy]

Jbor wrote:

"However, in the moment of deepest crisis at Rex's, and afterwards, back
on the campus when the action is in full swing there, she also displays
great courage, which Prairie takes note of (247-8)."

I don't see it as great courage.  I assume what you are referring to is:

...the camera never pulling back, but standing against whatever came its
way and often moving out into it. "She could get herself killed," Prairie
cried.
   "Yep," said Ditzah and DL together.

This is more an acknowledgement of the danger involved in filming the
riot.  Ditzah and DL after all these years are still repulsed by
Frenesi's going over to the other side, and Prairie, after the last reel
of film is shown, remembers only the image of her mother as a duplicitous
traitor:

"Her mom, in front of her own eyes, had stood with a 1,000-watt
Mickey-Mole spot on the dead body of a man who had loved her, and the man
who had just killed him, and the gun she brought him to do it with. 
Stood there like the Statue of Liberty, bringer of light, as if it were
part of some contract to illuminate, instead of conceal, the deed."

Toby

________________________________________________________________
The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!
Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!
Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!