A man who subsequently leads her into a Bonney & Clyde life of petty crime. robbery. Extortion and prostitution. She ignored the warning most of us are given as children. Don’t talk to strange men.
Prostitution of course. is a career necessarily based on ignoring such a warning. hence the cynical popular adage quoted by the writer. Who but an innocent would drive off with a stranger to an unknown destination for. A “bit of light S & M in a party room. All fixed up” and feel reassured that the stranger “looked like Billy Graham with glasses”?
The title of this book is taken from
Luke’s Gospel: “For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; neither that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light.” To ensnare the innocent what the devil has to do is job function email list to assume an appropriate disguise. then he can penetrate the Garden of Eden. Americans are obsessed with this theme of the imposter. the next door neighbour who seems nice but who is a secret rapist. Satanist. sadist. serial killer. In fact. serial killers are not very common- serial killer victims in the US are estimated at about 400 a year.
Which is about 1% of the annual murder rate
But reading and hearing about them provides vicarious thrills along with a good conscience. Modern America and the West in general tips to attract more potential customers has abandoned the Puritan virtues but kept the Puritan vices. This book is consciously harking back to the Bible. America is a poisoned Eden. full of traps for the unwary.
“We. parents and children both. followed the hiss of its promise. it can’t happen here. into the shelter of ignorance. We traded away knowing for safety. and ended up where the devil could have us.” (p.97)
Ignorance is not bliss
We should be made aware. make whatsapp filter our children aware. so the message runs. of what goes on in the world. the writer blaming the illusion of false security in which so much of Middle America brings up its children. Really? A conservative would argue that children are innundated with “realism”. the media wallow in tales of crime and rape. not to speak of book and film fiction. America’s Eden is not protected from the intrusion of video and television.