Society and Class Quotes in Beautiful Creatures Page 3
(Date.Paragraph)
| Quote #7 "You're angry because you're afraid. You all are. Deep down, you're all the same." (9.15.29) |
Aw, snap! Lena's calling out Ethan and the rest of Gatlin. Many people in this town avoid Lena, shun her, or worse, simply because they're afraid of her differences.
| Quote #8 Jackson High was just a smaller version of Gatlin. (10.09[1].3) |
According to Ethan, Jackson High is a microcosm of Gatlin. A microcosm is like a little snow-globe version of a larger thing (but since we're in the South, no snow). Gatlin itself might be a microcosm of the whole world, don't you think?
| Quote #9 The folks that shunned Macon Ravenwood and his family had them to thank for the fact they even had a town at all. (12.06.47) |
Sorry, everyone, we're pretty sure these folks would still talk about Macon behind his back even if they did know that his family was responsible for putting Gatlin on the map.
