"I get it. You ran off 'cause of what your daddy said about your mother. It didn't have nothing to do with me in jail. And here you got me worrying myself sick about you running away and getting in trouble over me, and you would've run off anyway" (Kidd 53) is what Rosaleen says to Lily after Lily frees her from jail. Lily says that she ditches home because of a rude comment from her dad, T.Ray, but I think that Lily was thinking more about Rosaleen than herself.
If I were in Lily's shoes and my father made a rude comment saying that my mother avoided me when I was little, I would more than want to run away. However, T.Ray says and does more awful things to Lily than that. Between strict boundaries and hateful punishments, I do not think that T.Ray telling Lily about her mother would push her over the edge and make Lily leave. I think what finally made Lily leave was that her father was cruel and Rosaleen was not there to comfort her and the fact that T.Ray did nothing to save Rosaleen.
Most importantly, Lily can not stand to see Rosaleen in jail. T.Ray says to Lily, "He's the meanest nigger-hater in Sylvan. He'd as soon kill her as look at her" (Kidd 38) and this worries Lily to the point where she has to leave to save her. Rosaleen gets Lily through hard times with her father and Lily was not about to give up on her. I believe that Lily could have cared less about her own feelings and was more worried whether Rosaleen was dead or alive. I am sure that Lily ran away just to save Rosaleen.
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I haven't read it so it is hard for me to judge but couldn't it have been just to get away? If it was so bad for her than what makes you doubt that she left just for herself?
Well I think the reason Lily ran away was to save Rosaleen. Lily only lives with her abusive dad and Rosaleen, who is her housekeeper, and Rosaleen often comforted Lily. I know that Lily hated her father and very well could have run away just to get away from her father, but what finally made her leave was because Rosaleen was gone.
So they had a very close relationship? What happened to Lily's mother?
Lily's mom and dad got into a fight and her mother pulled out a gun to protect herself. The gun dropped on the ground and Lily went to pick it up. Right when she picked it up, the gun went off and she shot her mother.
Oops. Yes, Rosaleen and Lily were pretty close =]
That's very sad. I hope that things get better for her.
I believe that she ran away from home for both reasons. She wasn't happy with T. Ray and she knew that her and Rosaleen deserved better.
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