Jacqueline

. =The Patron Saint of Butterflies =

This picture represents the butterflies that bonded Winky (Honey's roommate) and Honey. They were both so misunderstood and both weren't ever really given a chance to show who they really are. People give them one look and turn away from them because of their background history or in Winky's case the way they look. Winky is very slow and has a bad case of lazy eye. lots of people confuse him for someone disabled or mentally retarded. Little do they know that Winky has a talent for creating a spectacular butterfly garden; one which takes lots of precaution care and attention. He has made it so all these flowers are carefully sided by one another, each flower attracting some kind of butterfly. Every butterfly that comes near their garden is recoded in a book that Honey has. That's how got to be so good of friends and learned to slowly and painfully adapt to the place they are supposed to call home.

** "Psychological definition of "Cult"-Richie Partington ** This review summarizes the book at a very brief tone without giving any detail out. Which would be as simple as it gets if you are into books that deal with lots of twisted humor and very real and pessimistic books, then this would be a very good one. This book is truly one of the many examples of religious cults. which a cult by the way is a system of beliefs and strict rituals. The main setting is Mount blessing which is a community in which these followers lived in. they lived by strict rules that consist of many regulations and are expected of many things. But if they survive all the horrid nightmarish daily expectations then they will successfully be considered saint like in that community and from there will work even harder to strive for greater perfection. In other words, Welcome to Mount blessing, or a big circle of crazy followers in a religious cult.


 * "Galante offers a glimpse into one commune's routines, a commune housing people who are so desperate to believe in something, anything, that their clouded judgment refuses to see the truth hiding beneath the fancy words." //-TeenReads.com// ** This review was one of the ones that suited the book best because it briefly explains the troubles and sacrifice that was put into the whole community. in the book there were many things that could have been dealt with in a better manner, but a lot of ordinary things weren't allowed so that made the average life so much more complicated. Yet it also explains how naive and painfully tricked these people were. the leader Emmanuel took advantage of each and every one of his followers and manipulated each and every one of them. the ones that left the ordinary life to follow him even changed their names to prevent being found and caught by authorities and the police who suspected Emmanuel greatly. This summary was also very good in explaining the amount of faith that was showed here. The people in this community suffered greatly because they wanted to not because they had to.

**"Ive even put away The Saints Way for now. I haven't looked at it** **since we left. It's not that I've turned my back on the saints as whole; it's just that i personally don't think I fit into their group. I dont want to be Saint Agnes anymore. I just want to be Agnes whoever she may be." -Agnes** This is towards the end of the book after Agnes and honey have a giant fight and suddenly Agnes realizes honey was right so she turns around from her naive thoughts and stubbornness and actually listens to their thoughts and allows it in. Suddenly Agnes realizes that she is not ever going to be perfect because she is human and wasn't made to be. so she pushes her old thoughts aside and quits all together on trying to be a saint and focuses on being herself. Since even she forgot who that was, because all that time she was doing something that was so impossible and foolish. Agnes even let go of her precious "Saints way" book, just to start all over again this time her and her best friend are on the same side.

==="We've got to stay on the same team if we want to make it, okay?" -Nana Pete === This quote was significant to the book because Benny was horribly injured and was taken to Emmanuel who stitched his fingers back on. Then he was taken to the hospital and was told that he barely was able to save his fingers, but when Ben was discharged from the hospital Nana Pete was taking them all back to Texas with her until Agnes insisted that she would not want to leave mount blessing or her parents but honey and Nana Pete insisted so much that Agnes ended up saying she would go but to protect her brother from their "demonic wrath." Now that they convinced Agnes to go with them will they convince her into revealing her home Mount blessing for what it really is?

=="Now every time i feel it chafe against my skin, I offer up the pain for any failings I have committed that day..."-Agnes == This quote is important to the book because it signifies how much Agnes is committed to her religion. it also gives an example to how strict they were about the simplest things such as what they said, what they ate, what they did and so on and so forth. Any kind of Inappropriate behavior was resulted in severe punishment. Yet the leader himself was allowed to do as he pleases while the others tend to his every whim and have been pulled into believing that he has powers and such. These people like Agnes torture themselves with things like fasting and sleeping on sharp rocks to relieve sin; in order to become a saint as holy as Emmanuel. While he and his wife veronica have all the luxurious things anyone normal could want.

==**"Falling asleep, but the next thing i know, Agnes is snuggling next to me, exactly the way we used to when we were kids sharing the same crib in the nursery. Her breath is soft as a rose petal against the back of my neck. Something inside my chest swells as our breathing aligns itself. For a moment i feel as though the old Agnes, the one Ive known since we were born, is back." -Honey **==

This part of the book is very important because it signifies how much they have grown apart since they were young. Yet it shows how much they need each other. In this part of the book Honey was sent to the Regulation Room for "kissing a boy with her tongue." She was very harshly disciplined and as a result was beat brutally by the leader of Mount Blessing Mathew himself. it was only the first sign of a big change, that would affect their lives forever.this lead to a series of events, which was also caused by Agnes's grandmother Nana Pete. as they thought things would get better some things worsened. Benny (younger brother of Agnes) had his finger chopped off by one of the great doors while it was going to close. his intention to go back inside did not work very efficiently, because it lead to his finger being stitched back by Emmanuel. when Nana Pete went and took him to a real hospital the doctor told her it was the worst kind of stitching he has ever seen, but the doctor fixed it. then afterwords Honey, Agnes and Ben were taken by their grandmother and fled mount blessing. it lead to lots of realizations and major changes in their lifestyles. all from one memory and a wish for a happier future such as one like the past.

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 This Video is a perfect example of how hard it was for Honey and Agnes to move on from the life they new so well and were so used to. this was a new beginning for them and a new way to start. but in order to do that they had to go through pain ans suffering to get something real out of the lies that was thrown at them and allowed them so see past deception. Now they both have somewhere to start and someone to turn to, because now they know the limits of friendship. They also learned that they have each other through the good and hard times of life.

In this story the one of the rules from mount blessing was to never eat any kinds of red foods. some of which Honey and Agnes thought was the best kinds. Every time they were offered red food, both seemed to want it more and more. the more they ate it, the more they seemed to fall out of their "saint" ways. The red food was a big part of the story every time there was a giant event in the story the fact that either of them was offered red food was the part that stood out a lot to me since they weren't allowed to have such things because in the story, was associated with the devil and his demonic forces. By eating red foods apparently it allowed the devil in farther and farther into them.

The prayer beads in the story was a giant part of the book. see the people at Mount Blessing were very religious and their faith was the greatest and most important thing to them. So to them the simplest things required worship and prayer. So to everyone having prayer beads was very common. Turning to faith was the simplest thing to them and it was something that they strongly relied on. After all they lived in a religious community and were a part of a large cult. Something as simple as this meant a lot to them. a day without prayer and strict routines to them would be like a day without electronics to us. they didn't even have that where they lived. nothing like that would be, "appreciative of the lord."Whenever there was a tragedy or something extremely bad or good, people turned to prayers and their beads. That makes up a giant part of who they are and what they believe it, but most importantly how they do it.