Post #10 Form B

After a gypsy clan stole Brian’s pogo stick and left a chicken with its throat slit on the doorstep of the family after the Mom got into an argument with the clan leader. Jeannette’s Mother decided to fight magic with magic.
“Standing on the sidewalk, she held up the bone like a crucifix at an exorcism, and called down a curse on the entire Gypsy clan and their house, vowing that it would collapse with the lot of them in it and that the bowels of the earth would open up and swallow them for ever if they bothered us again. The next morning Brian’s pogo stick was lying in the front yard.” (102)
This quote represents Brian’s mother’s superstitious nature. She decides to take the matter somewhat seriously and combat the ‘magic’ with her own ‘magic’. This quote also gives a glimpse as to what kind of neighbors Jeannette had in her early years. At the beginning of the chapter she describes her neighbors as ‘weird’ but this incident really highlights that. This quote is also a good comedy relief type of thing because it comes shortly after the death of Jeannette’s grandmother. All in all it just seems to fit in nicely with what is going on yet it is random enough to require a double take over that section of the book. Kinda neat.