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The View of the Family Kelley Sirko English 560 Spring 2008 Designated Roles Luke “Luke had been offered the role of strength and simplicity. He had suffered the terrible burden of being the least intellectual child.” (53) “Because he was not gifted in school and because he was the oldest, he was the recipient of my father’s sudden furies, the hurt shepherd who drove the flock to safety before he turned to face the storm of my father’s wrath alone.” (53) Designated Roles Savannah From earliest childhood, Savannah had been chosen to bear the weight of the family’s accumulated psychotic energy.” (52) “Her luminous sensitivity left her open to the violence and disaffection of our household and we used her to store the bitterness of our mordant chronicle.” (52) Designated Roles Tom “I came as a surprise, an afterthought.” (77) “My designation in the family was normality. I was the balanced child drafted into the ranks for leadership, for coolness under fire, stability.” (53) Lowenstein: “You became Savannah’s memory, her window to the past.” (464) Extremes and Instability “It was the beauty and fear of kinship, the ineffable ties of family, that sounded a blazing terror and an awestruck love inside of me…The story of my family was a story of salt water, of boats and shrimp, of tears and storm.” (675) Extremes and Instability Henry and Lila “I could always feel the fury of some higher love shimmering between them, even in there worst and most dangerous moments…Their signals were always mixed and confused and I could never sound the depths of their always volatile relationship. I could not figure out what my mother saw in my father or why she remained as both ruler and prisoner in his house. It was clear that my father adored my mother…My mother often seemed to despise everything my father stood for, but there were moments of strange complicity when I would see a look pass between them so charged with passion and awareness of the other that I would blush