Highwire Moon (Literary Analysis)

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Highwire Moon is a book full of chilling events by the acclaimed novel writer Susan Straight. The exciting suspense filled novel is about a mother who lost her baby due to immigration problem, and twelve years later the mother and daughter began searching for each other. The daughter just really wants to figure out what actually happened. When Elvia (the daughter) was around 12 years old her father, Larry came back into her life and he took her with him to live. Elvia’s relationship with her father is very important in the novel. He love his daughter dearly but has troubles of his own that he should attend to before trying to raise a child. As Michael Farris a book writer says, “A father who refuses to admit or to work at changing poor, immature behavior reaps a daughter who refuses to trust him”(Farris 26). In the novel Highwire Moon Elvia’s father are both a good dad and a not so good dad. “She guessed she was lucky, compared to most kids in the desert. Her father brought food home, he had never hit or even touched her and he hadn’t disappeared” (Straight 12). The author says that because Elvia felt that her mother had just disappeared and left her but she did not do that. It was much more to the story, but at least she knew her father was going to always be there. Her father is a loving dad and would kill for her. “Hey, road kill. Touch her and I’ll fuckin flatten you” (23) is what he told a little boy when he seen her hovering around her. This shows how much love he has for his daughter and how deeply he cares about her. Larry shows his love for Elvia especially, the day that he parts ways with his girlfriend. The reason he had to part ways with her was because she had put Elvia’s life in danger. Larry’s girlfriend had burned the house down trying to cook drugs. For a father who is an addict of any kind, that situation should have been a major

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