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So why is it that some argue till their mouths are
dry and the words start to twist while characteres like Max hit the
road? At the age of thirteen Max was confronted with
the divorce of her parents which took place in the following way.
Her mother being sick of New York began sleeping with her uncle and
"ran away" to Miami. Now was this incident a sort of key
event teaching Max that change in whatever way directly resulted in
running away? More or less meaning that if you do not want to live a
monotone life you constantly have to be on the run. But taking the
sequence of events into consideration Max did not turn her back
until her dad was murdered on Belfast Airport. This was the
first major problem confronting her."She had loved her father
like she loved herself." (p. 120,l.5) But what happens with
love to a dead person? I suppose it slowly begins to fade along with
memory of smell, appearance and typical habits of the deceased person
till eventually you feel an empty space. What you need then is
change and as Max was taught by the examplary act of her mother she
decicded to leave her old,broken and twisted life behind at the age
of only sixteen. After her mother "sobbed without tears for the
cameras" (p.122, l.20) and "her uncle/stepfather made
husky eulogies of his dead brother for reporters" (p.122,
ll.21/22) Max decided it was time to leave and make a change. "She
ran to Jacksonville, she ran to Pensacola, she ran to Fayetteville
and Tulsa, she ran to Amarillo and Lubbock. she ran south again to
El Paso, she ran to San Antonio" (p.122, ll.25-27). After two
years had unnoticedly passed Max finally stopped in Phoenix. Julia
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