Holler, Child - "Everything's Fine" & "Time After" Summary & Analysis

LaToya Watkins
This Study Guide consists of approximately 37 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Holler, Child.

Holler, Child - "Everything's Fine" & "Time After" Summary & Analysis

LaToya Watkins
This Study Guide consists of approximately 37 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Holler, Child.
This section contains 1,172 words
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Summary

“Everything’s Fine” takes place from the point of view of the main character speaking to his wife, Resh. Apparently, Resh wants to move out of the nice house that her mother gifted to the couple, and she is unhappy in general with her husband and the job he has. He believes that everything is going to be okay, but Resh repeatedly attempts to get him to call the agency that they foster children with to get more children to foster, but the narrator does not believe that is a good idea and is procrastinating. Perspective shifts to third-person, and Resh yells at one of their foster children; she even “went as far as wondering why she had actually gone through her own pregnancy” (175). Resha and Ben, her husband, had moved to Austin some years before. Ben makes it onto an...

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