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CHAPTER 11 - Breaking the Rules
Summary
Melony returned to Bath the same day. She went to the pizza bar, where she looked so forlorn that Lorna joined her. The bum Lorna was with came over and asked if Lorna was back with Melony. Melony had a few words with him that ended with him breaking her arm and her nose. Lorna took Melony to the hospital. This meeting resulted in their moving back in together.
It hadn’t been Wally and Angel after all that came up to the cider house, but Mr. Rose and his daughter, Rose, and her baby girl, whom they hadn’t named. Angel fell in love with Rose instantly. He was shy with girls, and the girls that showed him interest were gossips. Angel liked quiet girls. Rose was the most exotic girl he’d ever seen, and if she had a child, she was more mature because she’d done some other “things,” he thought.
Rose, washing her baby, was startled when Angel approached. She had a knife scar across one nostril and upper lip. The knife had also taken out a tooth. But, even with this flaw, Angel thought she was beautiful. She was only a few years older than Angel, but her maternity was apparent when she dealt with her baby.
Rose’s baby was teething, so Homer had Angel buy pacifiers and some bourbon to numb the baby’s gums. Angel showed Rose how to use both. Later, Angel wrote a list of names for the baby, hoping to impress Rose.
A woman who had tried to give herself an abortion died, and Larch felt
responsible and too old, but she had come to late to be saved. Larch soothed
himself with ether. The dead body, which would not sit well with the board
after receiving their letters exposing Larch, and Larch’s laments of being
too old prompted Nurse Caroline to write Homer and.........
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The novel climaxes with Homer performing his first abortion. Rose Rose,
impregnated by her father, is in need of an abortion. With Larch dead,
Homer realizes that he must do it. He also realizes that if he can do
this for Rose, he can do it for anyone. However, Irving makes it clear
that Homer does not fully switch to Larch’s position. In his interview
with the board, Homer, as Fuzzy Stone, comments that if abortions were
legal, he would not perform them. Irving shows that no matter what side
of the issue you are on, no position is absolute. There are.........
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