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Mavis -telling Ellen stories of when her mom was younger.

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Nadine -she said that Ellen tried very hard to please her and her daughter even if the gift was cheap, she was appreciative.

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Grandmother: Sort of plays a Havisham esq. role in the story being the mean controller of the main characters life that is too sad and hurt to think straight

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Betsy -she helped Ellen until she felt like it, and then she stopped.

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Mama -she cleaned up after Ellen's daddy even when she was weak and sick

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nick do you get taht you are looking for the key moment that give away each character -- the all i really need to know about you is:  example:  one group wrote about nadine: all i really need to know about you is that you call a child bad names

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nick do you get taht you are looking for the key moment that give away each character -- the all i really need to know about you is:  example:  one group wrote about nadine: all i really need to know about you is that you call a child bad names

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What are we doing? I didn’t really hear

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mamas mama -she blamed her granddaughter for her daughters death

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she cooks really good home made meals

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I guess you could say that

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I think that it's not just that though, she has a very complicated life and a lot of emotions come with it that she can't necessarily tell anyone about. It seems like she uses religion when she wants to and has things she wants to say, but then pretends none of it is real when she doesn't.

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It seems she has a lot of faith in god and is Christian, but at the same time knows that Santa Claus isn’t real and shuts down everyone’s belief of him

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I feel like in southern literature and such poor people are almost always depicted as being religious. I don’t think Ellen is an exception. Her relationship with god is a perennial theme that I think adds a lot

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Yeah and this also kind of ties into the relation to religion and church and everything that Ellen has experienced through that (seeing her new mama, etc.)

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I thought this passage was interesting because of the guilt idea coming back, and the way that Ellen is trying to justify her current and past actions to ease her own guilt