Scarlet Von Stratton Analysis

I believe the author–Ellen Hopkins–intention was for her readers to listen-to understand what the character was going through. To let you know that sometimes there are things about someone that you just don't know, or understand.

The character–Pattyn Von Stratton–was a young Mormon girl, or so she thought, who didn't really understand things the way other mormons did. Or why men were the leaders of their households, why women were only good for cooking, cleaning, and having babies. She didn't know why she didn't want to be like all other normal Mormon women. But she did know that she wasn't afraid of her abusive-alcoholic-father. She knew she wasn't like her seven other sisters, afraid, or willing. She wasn't going to be like them. She was …show more content…
Her father was a drunk who couldn't let go of his buddy Johnnie WB (Walker Black Whiskey). Pattyn was raised to help her mother take care of her seven younger sisters. She wasn't allowed to date, wasn't allowed to wear revealing clothing, she couldn't even be friends with people who weren't Mormon or went to church. Her mother was abused by her father and she always wondered why she never left him; she always just kept trying to have that one son her father had always wanted. One day she asked "Why do you keep having baby, after baby?" And her mother replied "Pattyn, it's a woman role". Pattyn didn't want to become like her mother. She wanted to make her own choices and live with her own fait. She started to rebel against all her Mormon rules and her parents. Her father got so fed up he sent her off to live with her aunt Jeanette for the summer, she couldn't get into trouble way out in the wilds of Nevada. Pattyn didn't believe in love–or she didn't until she met Ethan. Who showed her who she was always meant to be, the parts of her that were buried within her. She finally got away from her father, her family and all the diapers. All was fine and dandy until she realized that her old demons will not let her