Belle Prater's Boy Group

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freddy1234
freddy1234
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High School - 9th Grade

What happened to Belle?

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Posted by freddy1234 on Thursday April 26, 2007 at 4:59 PM and tagged with belle prater's boy, belle praters boy, character, plot.

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  1. jamie-wheeler Teacher
    College - Sophomore

    eNotes Editor

    Belle never appears in person throughout the novel; she has married young and impulsively; her actions and fate are imporatant to a number of characters. For example, Woodrow "longs for her", Love feels badly that he was "not kinder to her" and Grandpa and Granny "wish they could have helped her."

    Porter explains to Gypsy, "She actually vanished many years ago, when she was about your age. Now she is out there trying to find herself again."

    The message, therefore, is instructive to characters who wish to avoid a similar fate of disappearance in their attempts to "find themselves."

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    Posted by jamie-wheeler on Friday June 22, 2007 at 4:44 PM

  2. harris313
    harris313 Student
    High School - 9th Grade

    Belle dissapeared and woodrow said that she dressed in his clothes and took a hat to put her hair and so she could look as a boy and she caught a ride with the carnival

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    Posted by harris313 on Friday June 27, 2008 at 5:35 PM