Rumor had it Kavinsky’s father had bought off Henrietta’s sheriff. Of course it was Joseph Kavinsky Rumor had it Kavinsky had laughed and told the judge he’d never get pulled over again. The secret he can’t escape, even if he doesn’t put it into words in hopes it will go away–and the secret that similarly, quietly, will be running through the background The secret that Ronan knows, and doesn’t know, about himself. There is the new secret we’ve yet to fully understand: what Ronan meant about pulling Chainsaw from a dream.Īnd then there’s this secret. There is the obvious secret: what happened to Ronan’s father. However, from a structural level, it’s also important that we understand how these secrets relate to the novel about to unfold. He’s been damaged by a past we were not invited yet to see, and which includes details he still hadn’t really shared. Throughout the first book, we see that Ronan is a difficult person to know. We begin the novel with the idea of secrets for a few reasons, most obviously because Ronan has a lot of them. "But it still played in the background” (4). He never put lyrics to the second secret, the one he kept from himself. “ second secret was perfect in its concealment. Every day, thousands of confessions are kept from their would-be confessors, none of these people knowing that their never-admitted secrets boil down to the same three words: I am afraid” (1). The second is a harder kind of secret: one you keep from yourself. I would much rather you go back and reread the novel because as Stiefvater has said on her own blog, the answer to your question truly is right there.īut for the deeply confused, or the unwilling …
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In many ways, I almost encourage you not to read this at all. Those who know me know I tend to make theses out of blurbs, and I’m trying to avoid that here. It’s not going to be pretty and flowery and academic, and for that, I apologize. Gather round, Raven fandom, let’s break this down.
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Since it doesn’t seem to be getting better though, come. And there’s discussion, which I adore even more.Īnd then there’s this, which feels a little too much like lecture. I actually wrote this a couple of days ago, and I hesitate still to post it. Or: Why Ronan is Gay and Yes, That Was in the Book, Quite Clearly and Distinctlyīecause I keep looking through the tags and there is a lot of confusion, and a lot of attempts at interpretation, and that confusion still really does confound me.