"Special Topics" Post 5b

This section makes one seriously question Hannah’s effect on these young adults to whom she has become a mentor. From the time she has entered the group, Blue hasn’t really questioned the role of Hannah as their leader, their queen bee. However, this woman is a teacher, an adult. Doesn’t it seem strange that she would choose to spend her time several nights a week having a select few students come over to her house instead of having friends her own age? Her role is complicated for several reasons: firstly, she is a teacher, so if any of her Bluebloods ever had her class, her ability to teach and grade would be compromised. Secondly, she is an adult and they are all children, which casts her as an odd member in this group of friends. Hannah commands respect, from her experience, age, and knowledge, yet in some ways attempts to be accepted as one of them. Blue describes her loyally, but admits that Hannah sometimes causes the affect to “fill me with fear, a fear that I couldn’t put my hands on because as soon as I noticed it, it slipped through my fingers like steam, evaporated” (286). What would cause Blue to continue to be part of Hannah’s retinue if she felt like this at “unanticipated moments” (286)? The idea of spending part Blue’s spring break up on a desolated mountain far away from civilization with only Hannah and her group must fill Blue with some premonition of what’s to come. I wish she would be able to recognize her misgivings.