How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"You don't want to make some records?" he said.
"Well, if the Dude made it easy," she said. She hesitated. "Don't dream too hard."
"It's no dream that we have to leave," M.C. said.
She commenced to walk more quickly. "You live wide awake," she said, "or you quit living." (7.73-76)
What does it mean to "live wide awake"? Is Banina the more realistic one, the one who tells M.C. not to "dream too hard" about her becoming a famous singer? Or is M.C. the more "wide awake" one, the one who knows the mountain is dangerous and they can't stay? Or are both of them both "wide awake" and dreaming?
Quote #8
Not a word.His insides churned.
There was no tent.
Not a good-bye.
Lurhetta Outlaw had disappeared without a trace.
She didn't have to go like that. (14.71-76)
Nothing says dashed dreams like an empty campground, the girl of your dreams gone, and short sentences barren of emotion.
Quote #9
He didn't look at M.C., but down in front of him. "M.C., I can't sell your mother's voice. I never sell nothing much." Everything seemed to sink and perish inside of M.C.
"Then why are you here?" he managed to say. He sat down on the path and pulled weeds up by the root. "You come so far and you won't even try," he muttered. Tears stung his eyes but he wouldn't cry. (13.71-72)
It was kind of an unlikely dream of M.C.'s from the very beginning, and that reality finally catches up to M.C. isn't surprising; it does, however, highlight how truly young and innocent M.C. is for most of the book. His worries may be adult, but his dreams are those of a true thirteen-year-old.