At the hospital, the Department of Social Services approaches him. Demon calls an ambulance when he finds her passed out. The stress of her marriage drives Demon’s mother back to alcohol and drugs.
He forbids Demon from seeing Maggot, calling Maggot a “faggot.” Stoner becomes physically and emotionally abusive, and Demon fights back. Now the head of the household, Stoner derides and humiliates Demon and his mother.
When Demon returns from Knoxville, he discovers that his mother has married Stoner. This day at the aquarium is transformative for Demon, who has never seen the ocean but fantasizes about water. Demon initially finds Emmy difficult to get along with, but they develop a friendship when he helps her conquer her fears of sharks while they’re at the aquarium. Jane takes care of her dead brother’s daughter, Emmy. Peggot’s daughters, Jane, is a nurse with a stable income and nice apartment. When Demon is 10 years old, the Peggots bring him on a family trip to Knoxville. His mother tries to remain sober, but when she begins dating a tough man nicknamed Stoner, it further destabilizes Demon’s already insecure life. Maggot and Demon are best friends, and Demon wishes he could stay with the Peggots forever. Maggot lives with his grandparents full-time because his mother is in prison for the attempted murder of her boyfriend. They have a grandson, nicknamed Maggot, who is Demon’s age. Demon’s father died before his birth, and due to his mother’s addictions, Demon spends most of his childhood with the Peggots. Peggot declares that he has good luck and will not die by drowning. Peggot, assists the birth, and when he is born in his amniotic sac, Mrs. A nominee for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Kingsolver is the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the National Humanities Medal.Ĭontent warning: This study guide contains summary and analysis of drug addiction, death by overdose, physical and emotional abuse, sexual exploitation, and anti-gay slurs that are present in the source text.ĭemon is born in a small town in Virginia while his mother is passed out from drug and alcohol use. Kingsolver is an American novelist whose books regularly make the New York Times Best Seller list. Kingsolver bases her novel on Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850) to connect the present to the past, to combine cultures, and to adapt Dickens’s mission of using literature to hold a mirror up to society. The story exposes the systemic failures of American institutions but celebrates the resiliency of the individual spirit. Set in Lee County, Virginia, Demon Copperhead uses the first-person point of view of its titular character to juxtapose the world’s beauty and ugliness.
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