Ellen_Foster

Ellen Foster Ellen Foster takes place in a small segregated town in the South. Ellen, the main character and narrator, travels between numerous homes during the story. She first lives with her father and her mother, and then she moves in with her art teacher. Ellen then moved in with her grandmother, then with her aunt and cousin and finally with her new Mama. Although various major events, traumatic to an eleven year old, take place, Ellen tells the story as though everything is normal. Ellen starts the story by giving us some background of when she was little and letting us know right from the beginning how much she hated her father. She tells of one night when her father came home one morning hung over, and not able to remember what happened the night before. Ellen goes to hide from him and gets in the bed next to her mother. Despite the fact that her mother is dead, Ellen continues to lie beside her. The story then moves ahead a year or two and Ellen is living with her new family and is riding the pony. The scene then switches ellen, foster, new, father, mama, story, mama’s, house, goes, aunt, ellen’s, back, year, time, starletta, school, night, nadine, mother, living, home, grandmother, colored, though, tells, teacher, switches, stays, shopping, room, rolls, riding, pony, place, over, out, one, next, moves, moved, morning, live, julia, herself, hated, funeral, forced, first, finally, family, dora