Unintentional Impact

Unintentional Impact Winter’s Bone Analysis Several hours from the nearest big city, deep in the Ozarks of Missouri Ree Dolly is transformed into a modern day heroin by Daniel Woodrell. Woodrell deplicts a story of the backwood lawless town that Ree inhabits. It is loosely based on the town of Collinsville which is known for its local gypsy-like population. The Dolly clan which Ree was born into is mostly comprised of drug dealing men and their submissive yet aggressive women. The author Daniel Woodrell was born in the Ozarcks and eventually moved back to settle there as an adult. It is a beautiful and tranquil place. There are many stories hiding in these woods and behind the mountains. Woodrell’s writing has been classified as “Noir”. Noir is a french term for dark and hopeless with no happy ending. However the writer himself does not like to fit into any sort of classification, “if you adapt to the structures of noir, then it just insists on a certain type of ending”( http://southeastreview.org/2009/04/daniel-woodrell.html). Instead his writing develops on its own. It is natural. He says that Ree started off as a 30 something with the boys being her own kids. But that just wasn’t her. She needed to be in more of an inherited situation. It makes her stronger as the main character. Ree Dolly is an amazingly strong women, but what you are given is a harden high school dropout that is roughened by the life she has had to lead. She in some light is soft, sweet teen and in other situations she is a wood splitting loogy hawking hillbilly. Woodrell and Dolly share the need to escape from there situations at a young age. Ree wants to join the military to escape and Woodrell joins the military at 17. It seems that the author uses the character to express the quality of people in the unlikeliest circumstances. He demonstrates the power of dedication and a good heart. Ree goes farther than the audience ever thinks possible. This story is inspirational at the same time tragic. This book as brought light to the use and manufacturing of methanphetime in small towns all over the US. The author has set many of his books in the Ozarcks and he is a fantastic story teller. It seems in his attempt to create a intense and believable story he has raised awareness in the small towns that have exponentially grown in crime and drug use in the last 20 years. The story of Ree Dolly is so close to the real situations going on in the Ozarcks that it has made an impact in the real world. This story sheds light on the poor and jobless. In the article methland the author tell true stories about Americas small Midwest towns that had been engulfed in the meth cycle. It eats the town alive. Family run stores and resturants have no chance. As the economy gets worse or times get tougher it seems more and more americans turn to methamphetamines. Wheather it is doing the drug or making the drug it devours the person, their family, and there whole world. The use of meth increases energy, decreases hunger and thirst and heightens mood. So for the majority of americans it is a cureall. Infact is was marketed in the early 20th century as a cureall. Up until the late 1900’s it was perscribe by doctors for weightloss, depression and many other ailments. It has become an enormous problem in the way it is highly addictive, cheap to purchase and easy to get. It seems at first to help. However it quickly poisons the body and mind. People do things they would sober never dream possible. In the story. A person naive to methamphetamine use would find this story confusing and all around unreal. A town so small were everyone knows that Jessup makes a great batch of crank. Even the law and business people. A town where the criminals outweigh the law. It is the reality however in many small towns today. The spread of the drug grows faster than the strength of the police force. If the town becomes stronger than the law the people begin to make there own laws. Ree having been raised in this situation seems to know her place. However, when her family is put in jepordy she quickly breaks all the rules and faces the penlites. There are stories all across the nation in the last 10 years about brutal murders and crimes related to methaphetimine use. There are kidnappings, beheadings, home invasions and fraud. There has been a rise in awareness of meth use and its affect on the body and mind. Most of these advertisements are very mainstream. There are commercials now that use scare tactics to frighten kids from trying meth. This most definitely works. This is definitely more prevalent in the big cities and more affluent suburbs. What about the generational influence and poverty struck areas. The rural areas that now are over populated with crank. It isn’t as big of a topic because not many go in or come out of these smaller towns. So it is a quite situation. Jessup Dolly was killed for being a snich. And Ree’s hunt for him ended up with her cutting off her dead drowned fathers hands as proof he was dead. Yet it seems quite assumed that that murder will never get pinned on anyone. There is a unspoken code of conduct in this backwood town. Everyone knows but no one talks. And when you go snooping you are risking your life. There truly was no one that would help Ree Dolly. She did more than most would do. She was ready to die to help save her family. In a way her dream of joining the military was portrayed by her fighting for her cause and risking her life. Meth use is higher in rural areas. And