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Stormy Weather Bonnie Lamb Quotes

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Stormy Weather In the insane world of storm-wrecked Florida, Bonnie Lamb, an outstanding altruist, is the protagonist of Carl Hiassen’s Stormy Weather. Bonnie Lamb is the wife of hard-working businessman, Max Lamb. At the beginning, Bonnie is everything one might expect from a newlywed. But after Max is kidnapped, Bonnie begins to change. Bonnie distraught, searches for her husband with the desire to reunite the family to live a successful and lucrative life. After the kidnapping is solved and Max and Bonnie go their separate ways, Bonnie, less family-centered, has a new sense of adventure and likeness of nature. Finally, she ends up with an outdoor/nature-centered life apart from Max. In sum, Bonnie, a main character in Stormy Weather grows …show more content…

At the dawn of a ferocious hurricane, all the family worries about is enjoying a happy, successful, mundane life. Max takes his business very seriously, making his family monetarily secure. Carl Hiassen narrates the couple's morning on their honeymoon. "On August 23, the day before the hurricane struck, Max and Bonnie Lamb awoke early, made love twice and rode the shuttle bus to Disney World"(1). This quote illustrates the family's mediocrity. The quote also reflects that the Lambs are living in state that is insensitive toward nature, and has the characteristics of an urban family. However, Max's kidnapping sets Bonnie on an adventure to find her …show more content…

She decides that rather than go back to live with her husband in the urbanized, business priority style of living, she chooses to remain in Florida to go on a search for an escaped criminal with her new companions. "[Bonnie] wondered what her father would think of her now, on the way to a hospital, scrunched in the front seat of pickup truck between a one-eyed, toad-smoking kidnapper and a plane-crash survivor who juggled skulls"(187). This reflects that as they are on their way to meet the crime victim, Bonnie is reminiscing on how was a college graduate, news reporter life and matured to adventurous and unusual. Hiassen also narrates the situation from Auustine Herrera's point of view that Bonnie decided not to go back to NYC, giving up a life with Max. "That night [Augustine] didn't have to say good-bye, because Bonnie Lamb didn't go back to New York. She canceled her flight and returned to Augustine's house"(190). By her decision to stay, Bonnie predisposes herself to a hospital visit where she witnesses the injury of Brenda Rourke and decides then to go on a vengeance

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