Hi Nicole,
I love your analysis of the family salvaging their bones throughout the book, it made me see many scenes in a different light. I agree that so many situations throughout the novel seem to be characters almost working in reverse, salvaging what they can of their circumstances. We can see this with Randall and the sick puppy, or Esch and her situation with the baby. Poverty evidently plays a huge role in their lives and I think poverty creates many of these situations where Esch and her family are forced to "salvage the bones".
I love your analysis of the family salvaging their bones throughout the book, it made me see many scenes in a different light. I agree that so many situations throughout the novel seem to be characters almost working in reverse, salvaging what they can of their circumstances. We can see this with Randall and the sick puppy, or Esch and her situation with the baby. Poverty evidently plays a huge role in their lives and I think poverty creates many of these situations where Esch and her family are forced to "salvage the bones".