Saving Grace

Running head : SAVING GRACE

A Reaction and Analysis of Saving Grace ' by Lee Smith

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A Reaction and Analysis of Saving Grace ' by Lee Smith

Lee Smith 's Saving Grace is a novel that features the story of Florida Grace Shepherd , a young Appalachian girl who is brought up in an environment that oppresses the rights and freedom of young women based on the expectations of its very religious nature . Grace , who is also the narrator of the story , tells her own tale about her

quest for identity and freedom as well as her ultimate religious awakening . She shares her story as she goes through her childhood despising her father Virgil and the reality that unlike other children , she is growing with insufficient love and care from the people she expects to receive it

Grace 's childhood is bound by religious rules and codes since her father is their community 's popular charismatic preacher and serpent handler She is not free to do what other kids can do , and she is not even free to read anything except for the Bible . Grace and her siblings are not even allowed to read the news as their father stresses that the only news they need to know about is the good news from the Holy Scripture (Smith , 2008

Grace also knows that she is an abused child . Aside from the insufficient affection she gets from home , she also suffers painful maltreatments from her father , whom she wants to...