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Thula Rantz
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Here is some more evidence taken directly from The Boys in the Boat. Some evidence straight from the mouth of the stepmother herself...
Time for some life lessons
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Exposition
“We can’t make it here, Joe. Thula won’t stay at any rate. She’s insisting…. Thula wants you to stay here. I would stay with you but I can’t.” - Harry Rantz page 43
Even with her countless traumatizing flaws, Thula has given us life a lesson...
- Thula, after her husband built her a house, insists on moving, and abandoning her husband’s son once again.
- Indirect Quotation
How do we know this much about Thula
- our author Daniel James Brown tells us about Thula and everything she did to harm our protagonist Joe Rantz
aunt by marriage!
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“Make your own life, Joe. Stay out of ours.” - Thula page 90
- Thula rips Joe apart from his father once again
- Direct characterization
Thula's Reason for Living
Plot Structure
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Thula caused so much chaos, discord in the lives of Joe’s family (which was slightly broken and in need of mending from the start), but showed Joe was still able to fight for his goals and learn to trust eventually.
Thula accidentally tripped and dropped an iron skillet full of hot bacon grease, potatoes, and onions. Harry Junior was lying on the floor and the skillet landed square on his chest.
- Indirect quotation
- Blistered and scarred her son
- Harry marries Thula
- Thula hates Joe
- Thula uses Harry to kick out Joe
- The family lives without Joe
- Thula never opens her home to Joe
- Over the course of time, Thula has 4 kids
- Thula dies - (Wahoo!)
Question to the 'lovely lady'...
there will be horrible people in your life who drag you down, but in the end, it will be you who becomes the better person
Why did you
detest Joe?
- Responsible for separating father and son
- Her death is the reason Harry rejoined Joe
Summary
- Harry Rantz's second wife
- Hated Joe - evil stepmother to Joe's Cinderella
Thula in the flesh (or film)
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Thula Rantz: the story of a selfish woman
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