Light on Snow discussion

[Karen]

13. Do you think Charlotte's behavior with respect to her newborn child is justified? Do you think she takes appropriate responsibility for her actions in the end?

I think she was too doped up by the boyfriend to think clearly at the time of the birth and immediately afterwards. I don't like her character much because she took so little responsibility for the baby throughout her whole pregnancy, and was naiive enough to believe the boyfriend, and to let him lead her so astray from what she had planned for her life. It is not unrealistic for a your woman to act that way, but I still didn't like her lack of preparation - physically or emotionally, or her lack of much anger at the boyfriend. Yes, her tantrum in the woods in understandable, and I do think in the end she takes some responsibility, but in my mind, not enough.

14. Although the novel's action takes place when Nicky is twelve years old, she is thirty when she recounts it. Why do you think the author has chosen to have a grown-up Nicky tell the story?


Because she can appear more omnicient than she could have otherwise, and lend some perspective to it. I wish it had either revealed more or less or her current life (at 30), was uncomfortable with the amount that was revealed.

[kimboe]

ok, Little late but oh well.
i thought the book was alright. I didn't like how it was going back in forth in time. And I liked the characters, at first i did not like Detective Warren, but at the end he turned out to be an ok character.
I also felt that the end of the book was not enough, I wanted to know more as to what happened to the characters. It left me wondering and was not a proper ending for me.
But in all was an ok book.