Ree broke the rules and suffered the consequences for it. I am glad the movie stuck to the gritty representation of it. I kinda wish they had shown the actual beating tho, but the way they portrayed it was effective.
You can call the woman that took her to her dad a witch if you want, but the fact is that it was an act of kindness.
The truth is she did for Ree what nobody else would do, and quite frankly she did it at great peril to herself. If Ree decided to go to the cops and reveal how she found her father, it would have blown back on the "witch" big time, like in a life ending way.
Ree asked her mom what she should do, but it was the "witch" who seemed to help her the most. Also, it is worth considering that it was that very beating that actually kept her from getting killed by Thurmont (i.e., she had been punished, she's learned her lesson, no need to kill her). So believe it or not, in some ways she was a substitute mom.
Seriously, helping Ree would not end any gossip, more than likely it would just feed more gossip...it was her conscious eating at her that motivated her.
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