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1 Flowers in the Attic ..
2 Petals... ..
3 ...Thorns ..
4 Seeds... ..
5 Garden of Shadows
They were such brave children to withstand such suffering. Such clever children to escape such terror! For Carrie, Chris and Cathy, the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds, even while they built bright, promising new lives. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist.
And grandmother was convinced they had the devil in them.
But that wasn't their fault. Was it? Cathy knew what to do. She now had the powers she had learned from her beautiful mother. She knew it in the way her brother still yearned for her, in the way her guardian touched her, in the way all men looked at her. She knew it was time to put what she knew to the test. To show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten... Show them. Show them - once and for all.
Setting: California, Virginia, and South Carolina, 1960s
© 1980 by Virginia Andrews. Published by Pocket Books of New York. 373 pages.
Standing -- Carrie, Cathy, Chris Do you have an opinion about who's in the picture? Write to me and I'll post it here.
"I agree that it is Carrie, Cathy and Chris standing over the bed with Olivia lying on it. But I don't understand it. I mean, the three of them were never put in the position together to confront the grandmother. And it said she was in a wheel chair. Plus, I felt that Cathy wanted more revenge on her mother than she did on the grandmother. But the women in the bed is too old to be Corrine."
"I believe also that the people standing are Cathy, Chris, and Carrie, but I think the person on the bed is the grandfather."
"I have to dissagree with Patti. See Olivia always wore her hair in a
bun. And the person on the bed is wearing a bun. So it has to be Olivia."
"I have to disagree with Patti, also. The grandfather never was in Petals in the Wind. At least not long enough to be in a picture on the cover. I also have to disagree with Kimberly. Cathy wanted just as much revenge on the grandmother as she did the mother. The mother was just always easier to get to."
"I believe that these pictures are metaphorical. It doesn't have to be an exact scene from the book. I take it as Chris, Cathy, and Carrie all confronting the demon from their past: their grandmother."
"It is the grandmother. Remember when Cathy went to her room and straddled her and pured wax all over the grandmother's head?"
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Petals on the Wind
