Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This scene is important in many ways. Here, for the first time, we see the true nature of the lovable yet weak father, Lasse (Max von Sydow). Amidst the filth of the small room in which his son has just been whipped, Lasse says with defiance, "Your mother was worried I couldn't take care of you." For all of his efforts and earnest desire, Lasse will never be the role model for which young Pelle longs. He promises to revenge wrongs committed against Pelle, yet he is unable to fulfill the promises, and his moments of strength...
Character descriptions make the book. Both the gangsters and the cool and unhampered "moll," Miss Drew, are carefully and wonderfully drawn. And Billy's crazy but serene mother, though a minor character, is beautifully irrational in her actions...
When Schultz is "tried" to avoid conviction for greater offenses, "My mother saved the front page of the Mirror with Mr. Schultz's smiling face and folded it so that just the picture showed, she laid it down in the carriage and brought a thread-bare blanket up to its chin...
...Billy's mother is personally unreliable, but there is method in her madness. As her son rises to success (or falls, depending on the reader's moral outlook), she follows her own unpredictable route that eventually meets Billy...
...Today was a good showing of where we stand. We showed that we have the power of a wooly mammoth, the stamina of an okapi, the spring of a wallaby and the intensity of a mother bear guarding her cubs."--Harvard squash player George Polsky after the Crimson defeated Dartmouth, 7-2, Wednesday...