We continued reading Aimee Bender this week in her stories "Ironhead" and "Motherfucker." These stories had the similar comparison of outcasts like the others did.
In Ironhead we saw the boy born with a head of an iron was an outcast to his family of pumpkins. The boy was teased and ignored. He became drawn to the point of loneliness that ultimately could have been the leading cause of his death. His mother did love him, but his own siblings rejected him and ironhead had a hard time living in the fantasy world Bender created for him.
In Motherfucker, the motherfucker was an out cast, but in a completely different sense. This was one of the few stories from Bender that could have been set in a reality setting. There did not seem to be much in this story that could have brought us top believe it was meant to be fantasy. The motherfucker did just that; he engaged i sexual relations with woman that were mothers. It was strange and he was an outcast of some sense but not as like the other stories. It seemed to be more of a weird fetish more than a make believe outcast. He in some way changed the starlet's life and maybe he did that to others. He could have been the way he was just to change single mother's lives and give them satisfaction and a sense of excelling in life. For example, the starlet became a better actress and won lots of awards because of her encounter with him. Things that would not have happened if not for meeting the motherfucker.
Bender's approach to morals is a key to her story and the messages are woven into her stories. You may have to be able to intemperate her messages but the lessons she approaches and morals apply greatly to our society today.
Scott Swan
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