K.D and Arnette

Her mom believed her to be dangerous like everyone else; she stays Time at the convent.

The conflict over the oven.

A series of thoughts, images and/or sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. Dreams are important because they are thoughts. While dreaming you are thinking, but on a much deeper level than being awake.

Revelation 19:7, 8, 9, and Matthew 19:6

Her relationship and love with her brothers, Brood and Apollo Poole, and her connection with them

That the past can be as vivid as the present, and in the way which dreams and supernatural or surreal dreams have equal standings with the “real world”.

Small, brightly colored feathers are in her sink

Jeremiah 1:5

She would ride Hard Goods, Nathan DuPres’ horse. She was too young for underwear and when she saw Hard Goods and Nathan, she pulled her panties down anticipation. She received a whipping from her mother and that has reflected on her reputation and herself forever.

How things in Ruby are not as they seem or made to be. Despite Ruby’s intentions to be an exclusive paradise to those who live there, the inclusion of the town rests on the exclusion of certain individuals.

Characters often believe that things they see are intentional signs from God; therefore they wonder how to read them in the correct way

They were concerned about vultures as they were seen flying over the town.

He knew it would make the Fleetwoods nervous since it’s widely believed that Billie Delia is the “fastest girl in town and is speeding up by the second”.

They interpreted them to be a sign of death which could foreshadow death. Or they could be a sign of splitting or leaving. Which could foreshadow divorce or splitting.

It could be about the Convent women who come from diverse backgrounds and have various histories. Similar to the feathers and how they are differently colored than any bird Soane has ever seen.

The couple is not sincere with their love for each other. He needs a respectable wife in order to take up the role up he intends to play in Ruby.

Through her somewhat typical method of unfurling information and now perspectives over the course of the novel.

To Misner, it may symbolize the infinite love of God that is in humans and their actions. To Steward, he may think of how he has seen the cross used by whites who were racist to him; the cross is only worth as mucha as the person carrying it.

She focused on the colors of the feathers when she should have been focused on their location. The feathers were in a sink; a place she never would have put them. Likewise she realized the Convent women do not belong in her house.