Laura Ruby’s novel, Bone Gap, features a tight-knit community in Illinois. Everybody knows everybody’s business, and when Finn’s inability to stop Roza’s kidnapper everyone knew. They tormented him with name calling and leaving him out. The other characters also have trouble fitting in with “the people of Bone Gap”(1). We can tie this idea of not fitting in, into the […]

American culture, values, and creeds are all have different meanings to Americans. They are what makes you different from someone else, but there are values that everybody feels are important, freedom and equality. The ideas of freedom and equality have been around in American history since the beginning of this country. Many of our founding articles have been focused around […]