Whose son is Christopher in Flowers in the Attic?
Christopher "Chris"
As well as being half-uncle and niece, it is revealed Chris and Corinne were three-quarter brother and sister as they shared the same mother but their fathers were father and son, making them more closely related than half siblings but less than full siblings.
Cathy was actually pregnant by Chris.
Not only do Cathy and Chris never get over their attraction to each other (more on that later), but also, in Petals on the Wind, Cathy realizes she had miscarried a child and that it's not the progeny of her fiancé at the time — it would have been Chris's baby. So there's that.
(Garland) Christopher Foxworth is born to Alicia and Garland Foxworth in Foxworth Hall, Virginia. Garland Foxworth dies of a heart attack in Foxworth Hall , Virginia.
Birth Name: Christopher Garland Foxworth, Sr. Christopher Garland Foxworth, Sr. is the son of Garland Foxworth and Alicia and Father to Chris, Cathy, Carrie and Cory Dollanganger. When his father died, he and his mother were sent away from Foxworth Hall by Malcolm.
The reasoning being that Malcolm disapproved of Corrine's marriage because her husband was his half-brother, meaning her marriage was incestuous, as she married her half-uncle to the anger of Olivia and Malcolm.
In Garden of Shadows, her biological mother is revealed to be Alicia, who was locked up in the attic during her pregnancy with Corrine and Olivia fakes pregnancy to pass Corrine off as hers and never told Corrine the truth about not being her mother.
The grandmother forces Corinne to reveal to her children that the reason for her disinheritance was that Christopher was Malcolm's younger half-brother, thus Corinne's half-uncle, and that the children are the products of incest.
Corinne says she stashed the body in a ravine, but Cathy accuses her of hiding Cory's body in a small room off the attic that gave off a telltale odor. Chris bursts into the library, and Corinne perceives him as the ghost of his father, her first husband.
Their destitute mother tells them that in order to regain the fortune from which she has been disinherited, they must hide in their grandparents' vast attic for a few days so she can persuade their grandfather to reinstate her as his heir.
Is the grandmother evil in Flowers in the Attic?
Within minutes of their arrival, Olivia reveals herself to be a sad*stic religious fanatic, who viciously whips Corrine for marrying Chris Sr., revealing that Corrine and Chris were cousins. Olivia makes Corrine show her children the horrific scars as a warning of what will happen if they break her rules.
Flowers in the Attic was banned from numerous districts for depictions of child abuse and incest. Everyone still read it.
Joel Foxworth: Corrine's brother (or half-brother, according to Garden of Shadows), previously mentioned in Flowers in the Attic. Joel was thought to have died during an avalanche but claims he was living at an Italian monastery the whole time.
Corrine Dollanganger is the main antagonist of the 1987 novel, Flowers in The Attic and its film adaptation. She is a greedy, narcissistic woman who imprisons her children in her mother's attic and kills her own son and daughter so she will be the sole beneficiary of her wealthy father's estate.
Christopher Foxworth was the son of Garland and Alicia Foxworth and younger half-brother of Malcolm Neal Foxworth as well as the uncle of Corrine Foxworth whom he later married. He came to live at Foxworth Hall at 17 and sent to medical school funded by Malcolm, but was cut off after eloping with Corrine.
Ok if you've ever read the book or watched the film you'll know that the mother Corrine had incest relationship with her uncle and her own children Cathy and Christopher do from being locked in the attic.
They also find a copy of his will, two months old, with a clause that if it is ever revealed, even after his death, that Corrine had children from her first marriage, she will be disinherited. The children realize that Corrine, not their grandmother, was poisoning them to secure her inheritance.
Christopher and Corrine are disowned by the Foxworth family and change their last name to Dollanganger. They have four children: Christopher Jr., Catherine, and the twins, Carrie and Cory. Christopher Sr. dies in a car accident.
All four Dollanganger children — Christopher, Cathy, and the twins Carrie and Cory — were born from an incestuous marriage between their mother Corrine, and her uncle Chris. Corrine's father (and Chris's brother) was so enraged that he disinherited Corrine.
See, it turns out that Corinne's marriage left a bad taste in her parent's mouth because Corinne married her half-uncle (her father's half-brother) and ran away with him. So, uh, her parents weren't happy about that. As a result, Corinne's parents disinherited her.
Who did Corrine Dollanganger marry?
July 1959 — Corrine Foxworth/Dollanganger/Patterson marries Bartholomew Winslow. November 29th, 1959 — Malcolm Foxworth dies of heart disease in Foxworth Hall. October 29, 1960 — Cory Dollanganger dies of arsenic poisoning in the attic of Foxworth Hall.
Given that Dawn is based on V.C. Andrews' Cultler series, there are definitely themes that this series shares with Flowers In The Attic: The Origin. By the way, the Cutler series was actually completed by Andrews' ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman in the years after her death in 1988.
Andrews always maintained that the plot of Flowers in the Attic was “a fictionalised version of a true story” that a hospital doctor had told her when she was a teenager.
Originally Answered: What is the poison that Corrinne sprinkles on the cookies she takes to her children every evening in the V. C. Andrews novel, "Flowers in the Attic?" Arsenic!
After Olivia catches the two making love, Malcolm disinherits them both and banishes them from Foxworth Hall. The two flee to Gladstone, Pennsylvania and marry. Malcolm suffers a heart attack and a stroke, leading him to be crucially ill for the remainder of his life.
