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Winter Bones

Introduction

Daniel Woodrell writes about what he knows. There are moments in all of his novels when he belts readers across the face. Daniel Woodrell was born in Ozarks and continued to live in the West Plains of Ozards to enjoy the beauty of his own native land. Woodrell left his high school and join marines when he was seventeen to work as a manual labor and scratching journal entries as he hitch-hike across America. He eventually earned his Bachelor's Degree from University of Kansas and MFA degree Lowa University. He was awarded the Michener Fellowship because of his stunning performances in the Lowa's Writer Workshop.

Woodrell pertain a lean and declarative writing style. Utilizing clauses and alternative sentences create their own energy. Unlike others, he confines his writing to those characters that buyers can easily relate but, enthusiasm of critics always lagged sales of his novels. Woodrell wrote most of his novels in the Missouri Ozarks, his birth place and current hometown. He knows everything about the Ozarks landscapes from his childhood. His style of writing focuses upon the crimes and lawlessness which is known as county noir by most of the commentators (blogcritics.org). The most obscure novelist of America suddenly becomes the hero of fiction after the release of his eighth novel 'Winter Bones'. An instant classic published in 2006 follows a young teenage girl named Ree who is in search of his father while taking care of his family. Readers can view their essential selves in Woodrell's novel characters. He conceptualizes paradox and incisive characters with no racial baggage or synthetic judgment. Daniel Woodrell does not write about the low life in Ozarks but, he writes about people of Ozarks in the absolute sense. This paper will talk about the trials and tribulations that Ree had to face during the coming of her age.

Literature Review

Winter Bone relates to be a southern realism which is hard to accept. These fictional characters are written in such a sensational manner that one can feel the pain suffered by the Dolly family. They live in miserable conditions struggling for a better life where they can get rid of poverty, lawlessness and wretched deaths in the hollows of Ozarks. Winter Bone presented the power of love, wisdom and purity of Ree towards her mentally impaired mother and her younger sister and brother. She did everything to make their live easy and happy knowing her father is dead. She risks her own life for the survival of her small family. She scarifies and suffers pain and miseries just for her family, which is the only thing left for her in the world, after her father who disappeared into the hills imperiling the family home and property.

Ree fears of leaving the family house and living in the terrible woods of Ozarks, therefore, she tired her level best to search her father and get his family heritage back. In order to get a house and property from the county court she must have solid evidences ...