Ashley Hushka, Blog # 9/13

" The girl's eyelids, in the afternoon shade, lay half open as she hung, so filled with innocence, with stupedfied daughterly need, on each word, each space between words.



Prairie is just finding out that her mother that she has never met might be in some serious trouble. It's hard for her to comprehend what she hears. Poor Prairie doesn't even know who her mother is and what she is about, and now she learns that she might be in trouble. I chose this picture of Marion Cotillard in the movie "Innocence" to represent the quote. Although, she doesn't look completely innocent in this picture, she seems as if she did nothing wrong, but something unpleasant is happening in her life, just like Prairie.


Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 1990) pg. 102
http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_terror_of_being_a_little_girl