Title: Dog Eat Butterfly
Description: This is a tale about one summer of the life of five children of a sharecropper/babtist preacher growing up in North Mississippi in the fifties. The story essentially is told from the child's perspective and attempts to give the insights of their struggle to gain an identity when very little is offered to hold onto. The title is a metaphor for something that happens which does not seem to have a reasonable explaination... i.e. their lives are just there and their struggle is simply their life... I like the story... I like the characters... it needs some editing... I would say it is something like Faulkner with maybe a little more flow...
Subjects: red clay... cotton... until the fields are clean...
Places: Mantachie Bottoms... Tupelo Mississippi... Red Bird Ridge...
People: Jake Peach... Lee ella lei... Preacher Peach...
Time periods: It is about children who happen to arrive in a family that gives them negative support... their struggle to gain some self respect and identity in that atmosphere...