"Some days you just have to hang in there for a while, and endure the worst that life has to offer, self-doubt and hard luck and low self-esteem, the whole shooting match, before events just seem to turn themselves around 180 percent...and good things start to happening, you couldn't stop them if you tried."
Rather than take a quote from the work of literature assigned for the week, I thought I would mix things up a bit and take a quote from Prevention magazine. This quote emanated from the legislative lips of Sarah Palin. I expect the reflective downtroddenness she exhibits referred to her failed presidential bid and her daughter's unexpected pregnancy, while the upbeat resoluteness at the end referred to the quickly approaching bear-poaching season.
Just joking! This quote is the omniscient narrator of Wolf Whistle divulging Solon's thoughts. And Solon's reflective downtroddenness concerns his toaster strudeled son and his inability to exact informant's spoils from Lord Montberclair, while the upbeat resoluteness refers to his ability to extract hitman's spoils from Lord Montberclair for murdering bobo and his whole family and himself but not Wanda, if, and only if, she chooses not to be murdered.
I'm wondering what Nordan's characterizations are trying to say about the South. He depicts scenes of chaos - both in the southern streets and in southern minds, but to what end? The quote is something that anyone - you me Sarah Palin and even Solon - can agree with and relate to. This humanization of Solon we cannot turn a blind eye to, although at the same time, he is vicious and depraved. My conclusion is that the contrast only helps the reader to see, that the chaotic slums and murderous thoughts could encroach upon their back alley and frontal lobe, should they have lived in the South at that time. The humanization serves as authentication.
How much of Solon do you see in yourself, or, do you consider him a redeemable/redeemed character?
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