Amla, Adrian Dave N. 10:30-11:30MWF BALS 1 ENGLISH 2 NAME ALL THE ANIMALS Alison’s mother’s peculiar, ability to suspect and deny, simultaneously, the reality of her daughter’s sexuality leads her to arrange dates with young men in whom Alison has absolutely no interest. Resolution for Alison comes upon the third anniversary of Roy’s death. By this point she is sick to obey the rules governing the family’s inter-relationships. The title of the book derives in part from a blessing which Alison’s father gave to her. And Roy each morning asking God to protect their hearts, minds, and voices. He named these It sounds very nice. Why don’t Mom, John has asked me to stay out in his van all night at I want to stop hiding and biting my tongue. I wanted to tell them everything. I thought, we will tell each other our secrets. Someday we will return to the beginning to the Garden of Eden, where Adam first At this stage, Alison has this saying. To believe in God has no value to me at all. What did you do to her just to pay her wrong doings! For all the sadness and pain in Name All The Animals there is no bitterness or recrimination in Smith’s writing. She understands her mother as someone who had to reshape reality to cope with the hard life she had growing up, Smith is fully Sending her to her room to think for several days will effectively break her Name all the animals is a haunting and harrowing depiction of grief and mourning, of a group of individual struggling to pick up the pieces in the wake of a tragedy. It would make a compelling film, if anyone felt so inclined. Even before Roy died, my mother was a mystery. Inside her, there lurked a fugitive sadness. Every night in the yard, letting my hand fall, hugging her arms to her chest and wondering away from me in the cool lawn. I