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The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
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Plot Summary of The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
"A little boy is taken from his loving foster parents by his eighteen-year-old mother. She neglects him, lies to him, and convinces him that she is the only person in the world who wants him. Told as a series of short stories, the book chronicles the boy's adventures on the road and in seedy motels and trailer parks with his mother and her rotating cast of boyfriends, and in the repressive, religious household of his grandparents."
Judy Berman, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Mother (or standin)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Age group of kid(s) in story: - grade school
Parents/lack of parents problem? - parental abuse

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - a teen
Profession/status: - prostitute
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb: Yes
Eccentric: - deluded - wild - mentally ill - emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a lot
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 (an average amount)
United States Yes

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
Lot of foul language? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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