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Summary Of RULE OF THE BONE By Russell Banks

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RULE Of The BONE is a novel by Russell Banks and it focuses on family, relationship and how they interact with each other. How if one is not in a stable and constant safe space that is home, how different might that individual may turn out. It connects to the television series DC’s Legends of Tomorrow by having the same incorporation of family issues/troubles. With referring back to the novel with aspects of inner family struggles and loneliness/emptiness.” I actually kind of was a mass murderer” (Banks, 227). The characters inner struggles connect quite well, with one of the characters on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Mick Rory. “Boy slays family and self. I’d started having these incredibly realistic visions of firing my niner at my stepfather” …show more content…

Also has problems with his biological father. “And you should be more appreciative of everything your mother’s done for you, she said. And Ken, him too. He’s been more of a father to you than your real father ever was. Oh yeah, wow, fucking A, man! Dear old Daddy Ken, I almost forgot about what a great guy he’s been all my life. Thanks for reminding me” (Banks, 223/224). One can easily see the difficult and struggling relationship Bone has with his family. Just like Mick both outcasts, and both, people that others (society) look at as wrong doers, lowlifes and not what they are supposed to be. Family is supposedly there to support you, encourage and inspirer. Instead for these two family was that. Their families walked out on them.” I brought him his beer and handed it to him and when I did he grabbed my wrist real hard. What the fuck’s this? he said meaning at my tattoo. Nothin’, I said and tried to get away but he wouldn’t let me. You little pussy! he …show more content…

You fucking twat, getting yourself a tattooed like some kind of fucking fag. You got one on your ass yet? Lemme see, fag, lemme see your ass, he said and he made a grab for my shorts and when he did I slipped out of his grip. I ran back into the kitchen and he hollered, Get the hell back here, I’m gonna fuck you right once and for all! I could’ve gotten out of the door easy then and he wouldn’t‘ve caught me, he was drunk and half naked and I’m a good runner but instead I reached into my backpack and pulled out the gun and turned and very calmly walked back into the livingroom just as he was coming around the coffee table and I saw he had his boner again. He saw the gun thought and stopped. He goes, Oh c’mon, Chappie, just give me that. You don’t know how to use that. Try me, you sonofabitch. C’mon, let me burn you with it, man. I mean it, please! I said. I really wanted him to take one step toward me or to call me a fag again or a twat or a pussy. I really wanted him to say he was gonna fuck me right. I wanted to hear the word one more time, that’s all, and for him to take one more step toward me. Just one. Because I wanted to kill him. I have never wanted anything in my life as much as I wanted to kill my stepfather at that moment” (Banks,

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