He shows the reader how Ry creates versions of himself to handle his pain and suffering and preserve the different facets of his personality and childhood.
In a fearfully logical way, Kraus presents the reader with a distressingly real portrait of Ry Burke’s mind following his childhood trauma. Kraus jumps into this topic by creating situation in which the monsters inside both Ry and his father manifest as toys proxies which they use to distance themselves from their actions. He is afraid of becoming a monster just like his father was. He stood up to his father to prevent the abuse of his mother, but in many ways, he fears repeating the cycle. Ry Burke is tormented by what he did and didn’t do.
In his second novel, Daniel Kraus delves into the psychology behind abuse and how it can affect the adolescent mind.
When his family needs him the most, will he stand up to his father as he once did and protect his family from calamity or will they look to Ry for rescue and find only Scowler instead. They hope that he will be the man they believe he’s grown into, after years of pushing his other personalities and experiences aside. When the meteors hit and the infamous fiend from their past returns, Ry’s mother, Jo Beth, and sister, Sarah, depend on him for help and salvation. A small doll which once helped him confront his father so long ago is now calling to Ry, its foreboding voice like dark wings on the horizon. But one voice in particular is whispering to Ry from the depths of his subconscious. As the meteors begin to fall and the threat of Marvin’s return looms, the family decides to leave the farm, putting their wretched past behind them. But, with the oncoming of a meteor shower, Ry hears the voices of his “friends” rising to the surface again just as his family is informed of an explosion at the nearby prison. During this time, he and his family has been able to return to a resemblance of normalcy, escaping Marvin Burke, the abusive father Ry helped to put in prison. The voices in Ry Burke’s head have been quiet for nearly nine years following the trauma he suffered in the Black Glade forest which grows beside his family’s farm.
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