First of all, I found that one lady in the camp really bizarre. The lady that said that Rosasharn's baby was going to die if she went "play-actin'" or "hug-dancin'" when really that would probably happen to her if she was malnourished like the other women that lost their babies. I thought some of her ideas to be off the wall because she said that babies would burn in hell if their parents sinned, but I think that somewhere in the Bible it says that God will take care of the children. The lady and her fellow people would also glare in contempt at those who were dancing. Somehow the word contempt doesn't seem like a very Christian thing to be practicing. Her whole attitude of her being better than everyone else kind of bugged me too.
When Ruthie and Winfield went to go play with the other kids and Ruthie took the racket from the girl with the braids, I was glad that the other kids didn't play with her and taught her a lesson. She was kind of becoming a brat and like Tom said somewhere earlier in the book, she had a beating coming (or something like that). It kind of put her in her place.
Human nature was kind of shown at one of its lowest levels when the people would be starving and the rich folks would just let the food spoil because they weren't getting enough money from it. They threw some food in rivers and stopped the people from getting it even though they were becoming diseased from lack of food. I find that very "Hitler-ish" and cruel.
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I agree with you. First of all, the woman who told Rose of Sharon that if she sinned that her baby would burn in hell must not have been very religious because it does say that God will protect or take care of the children in the Bible. Second, it was foreshadowing when Tom said that Ruthie had a beating coming to her. I think that it was good that she was "put in her place." Because she was becoming a brat and a little too "big-headed."
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