Beka Lamb Rise

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In the novel “Beka Lamb” by Zee Edgell Beka’s father Bill Lamb calls her a phoney. I believe this mean she is dishonest, fake, uncertain of who she is and untrustworthy. He calls her this for quite a few reasons. Beka is told to clean the attic when Granny Ivy and she sleep. Beka decides to lie about cleaning up the attic when she knows she did not clean it up. Since Beka does not clean up the attic she is dealt with. To make things worse Bill Lamb her father comes from work tired and frustrated and Lilla is complaining about Beka’s “laziness” and ingratitude and “that she lied to me”. As a result Beka’s daddy beats her with the belt as she screams “no daddy!” As she is getting beaten the buckle accidently cuts Beka on the left corner of her mouth. Once again Beka lies and tells her friends that she fallen down the back steps. She does tis because she doesn’t want anybody to know she had got beaten. Beka feels most “hurtful” when her daddy calls her names. She does not respond well to criticism. She hates it when her dad calls her a “phoney”. Beka attends the school of St . Cecilia. It’s a catholic school run by nuns who are very strict. Beka finds out she cannot return to school because her grades were below standard. Beka lies about passing seventh grade when she has indeed fail. Beka tells her daddy “I pass in truth”. They didn’t believe her. She lies about small insignificant things that inevitably led to something of importance when she got caught up in her lies.She should not lie about her being “ promoted to second form” because it’s wrong and get punish for lying and she hates punishment. Bill doesn’t like Beka “style”. For example Beka’s hair is thick and knotty but tnow Beka goes to Miss Doodie’s twice a month to get her hair hot-combed. Bill doesn’t want Beka to use a hot-comb but her mother excuse is it takes Beka too long to fix her hair and that’s

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