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Rubyfruit Jungle Study Guide

This Study Guide consists of approximately 74 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Rubyfruit Jungle.
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Rubyfruit Jungle Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:

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Early Years

As Rubyfruit Jungle opens, a young girl named Molly Bolt lives with her adoptive parents in Coffee Hollow, Pennsylvania, An industrious girl, she thinks up a moneymaking scheme with Brockhurst Detwiler. a school friend.

As the only uncircumcised child in the area, Molly charges nickels to look at Brockhurst's penis—and dimes to touch it. When another student tells a teacher, her mother finds out. Irate, her mother informs her that she is adopted and illegitimate.

Shortly after this incident. Molly's Aunt Jenna goes into the hospital to deliver a baby. It lives for only two days and a few weeks later, Jenna dies of cancer. Molly has her first sexual experience in sixth grade with another girl, Leota Bisland. The family moves to Florida.

Florida

In the second section, Molly details her school years in Florida. She struggles to fit in, yet realizes that she is different from...
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Rubyfruit Jungle from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
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