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The Heroine of Louise Shivers Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail dormancy Beautys begetter was a king who loved his daughter dearly. Unfortunately, however, he forgot to invite hotshot of the oldest and most powerful of the fairies to the celebration of his daughters christening. Because of his forgetfulness, the princess was sentenced to whizz hundred years of sopor and inactivity. She was saved by a prince who made his way to her bedside and awakened her with a kiss of true love. Of course, they celebrated a glorious wedding and lived happily ever after. Roxy Walston, the heroine of Louise Shivers Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail, like Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella or Snow White, lived a queen tale existence. All of the financial support roles were accounted for her father, Will Stanton (the king) her mean stepmother, Ruth her grandmother, Georgeanna (the fairy godmother) her husband, Aaron (the shining knight) and her lover, Jack, as Prince Charming. regular the evil witch is symb olized by the aura of death and foreboding of the funeral home--always preying, get up to devour the next unsuspecting victim. But unlike the princess in the fairy tale, Roxys fairy tale ended when she was awakened from her sleep by Jacks kiss. The lovers had shared out many a romantic, passionate kiss, but the kiss--the hotshot which brought Roxy out of her trance--was the spitty one after Jack had confessed to murdering Aaron. At this moment Roxy awakened to her own self-awareness and freed herself from Jacks sensual, joke spell. Only then did she tap into the strength she never knew she had. It was that strength, at graduation as small as a tobacco seed, that enabled her to try to live on her shame and move forward with her life as best she could. For one to understand and appreciate Roxys vulnerability and passivity, a discussion of her childhood will place in proper perspective her family relationships. Will Stanton was a big-boned man, a giant with a soft heart. One can imagine the sheer delight of his little girl as he affect her with tangerines at Christmastime. She would slip her hand down into his big pocket and finger the white sack lining, looking for a Saturday nickel (Shivers 119). In Roxys eyes, her dadaism was omniscient, a virtual god. That idolization of her male parent is not unusual. Caryl Rivers, informant of Beyond Sugar and Spice, tells us that to many a young girl, thither is something magical about her father (50).