What do you understand about Beka's dream at the beginning of chapter two?

Answer 1

Beka's dream is symbolic. She fears falling into the filthy creek water - as Toycie 'fell' morally, was degraded and disgraced. Beka feels, in the dream, as Toycie felt in her time of trouble: that people all around her were only looking and laughing without really trying to help.

a quote: 'Beka stared at the laughing faces below her, and at the whiskerd catfishes nibbling at the filth floating on the surface of the water. Without warning, the bridge canted downwards propelling Beka into the waters and excrement of Haulover Creek...'

Something to think about:

- the creek was named 'Haulover creek' and Beka was throw over....

- Just as Beka unexpectedly was thrown into the filthy water, Toycie's life 'canted downwards' after she got pregnant, propelling her into a madness and a life of misery...