The main character in Lock and Key is Ruby. Ruby is very independent and doesn’t really want help from anyone. She feels confident that she can do anything she sets her mind to. Ruby takes pretty good care of herself. When it comes to appearance she doesn’t care if she has designer clothes or expensive accessories. Ruby is the kind of person you might want to look up to. She is very dedicated to being successful in life. She wants to finish high school and go to college. Ruby is quite different from other people in the book. She never lets people push her around or pressure her into something she doesn’t want to do. She stands up for herself and what she believes in. Ruby has gone 16 years without a father and her whole life without a mother who just doesn’t care. This has made her a very strong person.
Ruby learned what “family” is. In the beginning of the book Ruby thought she wasn’t a part of a family. She didn’t know what a family was and what it felt like to be cared about. She went most of her life taken care of by her sister. Her mother always sleeping or out at the bar. Once Ruby’s sister Cora left for college Ruby took care of herself. Years pasted and one day Ruby came home from school to see her mother was know where to be found. She felt unwanted and no one knew she existed. She got caught living at her mother’s house by herself underage. Social Services took her away to live with her sister Cora and Jamie, Cora’s husband.
Months pasted. Thanksgiving gathering came along. Ruby had to ask different people what family meant to them for a school project. She asked one of Jamie’s sisters, Alice. They came from a big family. Alice said,
“You don’t have to have a big family to make it a family. There are sometimes I have wished I had a small family. The more people you have the more likely someone wont get along with someone else. The potential for conflict is always there. Every person, struggle together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but always, a family.”
That changed the way Ruby thought about a family. She always was apart of one and always will be, no matter what.
Christine- I’m a little confused. Are both parts of your report here? I’m not sure what your topic is for the second part? Theme? If so, you need to do a much better job of clarifying what you are talking about – like an intro paragraph. These are supposed to be 400 words apiece. You go into a lot of summary here – stay focused on your topic.
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