brown chicken brown cow....

Chappie... Chappie....Chappie.... His dream finally came true and he met his long lost father by accidently running in to him in Jamaica. We come to find out that Paul Dorset( chappies real dad) is a doctor who is also working on the side as a drug dealer and lives in a giant over size house complete with a pool, garden, statues and lets not for get Evening Star. Evening Star is a heavy set good looking woman who is involved with Paul Dorset. Now this seems like the perfect set up that chappie has always wanted. A nice house two loving parents and drugs galore. But my first impression of Evening Star is a fake wanna-be Rasta. She talks in a fake Rasta accent and is always throwing her female parts at people. But she seems caring, and opens her house to stray animals and visiting americans who are on vacation( or so they say). 


Shortly after chappie starts living with his real dad and Evening Star, they throw him a Birthday party, complete with a giant sign, tons of people and a bunch of foods. Chappie who has not had a real Birthday party for some time really enjoyed it found only one thing that he really wanted but didnt get. A Birthday cake. Even though Chappie things that singing happy birthday is really cheesy he was really looking forward to it. But is soon occurred to him that maybe the party wasn't for him. That it was more to get together all the drug dealers in one place. This so called party showed that his dad and Evening Star dont care about him as much as Chappie though they did. Its not that Bone ( Chappie) really is asking for alot, this just shows how self centered everyone at the party is. Chappies dad really shows his true colors during this party, he uses his long lost sons birthday party as a place to sell his drugs and do his coke.  Seems like chappies dream of a loving, caring home with his dad isnt as nice as he hoped or dreamed it would. Even his new mom ( Evening Star) shows her true side when she Brown Chicken Brown cow I-man in her own home when Paul Dorset was upstairs. 

Coming of age..

Rule of the Bone is a coming of age novel. Russell Banks the author uses topics and instances that can actually happen in day to day life of a teenager, but most authors don't use it in their writings. Coming of age novel I would describe as the unspoken taboo. The things that happen everyday and everyone knows about but doesn't speak of. Every kid knows about sex, drugs and pedophiles but everything we read doesn't talk about it. This book opens up teenagers to the real world, to what actually can happen in a family.  " Get the hell back here, Im gonna Fuck you right once and for all!" This quote from the book really captures what could happen and does happen by step-parents. ( I'm not saying all step parents would say this to a step child). But you hear about this thing happening but you cant really think of anything to say cause you don't know the people it happened too. But reading this book you come to love and care about chappie( the main character) and it hits home when his step dad tries to rape him. " he made me touch his dick and suck on it for him" this is another one of those we hear about it all the time but it doesn't really hit any nerves unless we know who it is. Since we know the character chappie then we instantly have much harder feelings towards whats happening to him, and since we haven't read anything or our parents haven't told us stories about this happening then i think when we read it for ourselves it takes on a new meaning and we kinda grow with it. " all the lies he told to my mom and made me tell too so she wouldnt find out" This is another one of those things that kids hear about and actually do, but when we read we understand the difference from little white lies we tell to people and lies that keep the secrets that can make or break a family apart. This book does a excellent job on talking, exploring and opening the things some parents dont talk about, it sheds light on topics that people stay away from. 
some coming of age things that I have experienced do not come close to what chappie has gone through but I do remember when I got my drivers license. I remember freaking out when they said i passed and how happy I was. This little piece of hard plastic was my ticket to coming and going as I pleased. It was like I could decide when and where I would go. Also when I went and got my tattoo. Most people are probably thinking like wow really a tattoo is coming of age. But for me it was. Its a permanent decision that you live with forever and you make the decision all by yourself. Its what you want and its like your first real thing on your own.