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My parents were happy to trade sandwiches for yard work, and Charles and I became better acquainted. What bugged me so much was that nobody was helping this blind guy in a borrowed tent. He said he used to get a government check when he lived in Parker, but they wouldn’t give him one anymore, after he moved to Bullhead City. It was so unfair; I finally got my parents involved and guess what? Charles was getting social security checks - they were being automatically deposited in a bank account in Parker and he was rich!
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Dorothea Lange took photographs during the Depression-era mostly for the Farm Security Administration. She took photographs to humanize the effect of the Great Depression. One photo from Dorothea Lange is that of a young 10-year-old boy fixing his family’s car. The boy said that he doesn’t go to school because he has to help his father with the cotton field. The second photo of Lange’s is one of a group of people on the back of a pick up truck going to pick cotton for the day.
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Janie, Joe, Logan, Tea Cake, “Porch Sitters” and nanny. All play major roles in the effectiveness of the symbols in “Their Eyes Were watching God”. Janie’s hair represents independence and defiance of community standards. In the very beginning of the novel the towns talk of janie’s hair suggest that a woman of her stature has no business wearing her hair down “like she’s some young gal”. Janie walks into town during the middle of the day after returning from a long disappearance wich gets the “porch sitters” Gossiping about the young boy she ran out into the sunset with.
Perhaps glad to know that his world isn’t the only one crumbling around him. Despite the different approaches to handle their situations or just navigating life, one constant remains for both of these individuals. As both individuals struggle to adjust to their new lives, one thing remains constant to them, their family understands what they are going through and all they can do is be there in support. The young woman in “Snapping Beans” explains: “We snapped beans into the silver bowl between us and when a hickory leaf, still summer green, skidded onto the porchfront, Grandma said, It’s funny how things blow loose like that” (40-44). Even though the young woman wants to tell her grandma about everything, she doesn’t have to.
2. What symbols are used by the author to express Elisa's personality? The author uses symbols such as a flower to express Elisa’s personality, where it describes of how she was very innocent with an enormous lack of attention from her husband. 3. What did the speck of dirt Elisa found along the way tell her about her moment with the wagon guy?
In this passage you could view this as a sexual dynamic. The last passage that I read “Bring your gifts and graces and tell your secrets to this lonely country girl” (p.694), made me think about in the story they discussed that the girl and grandmother were poor. Sylvia could have made them rich by telling the strangers were the
Mama can’t help but feel ignorant compared to her daughter Dee. Mama describes her feelings and states, “She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn’t necessarily need to know” (Walker 477). Mama states this because she and Maggie know what is truly important and that is the real understanding of how their heritage should be viewed. Maggie and mama have a similar understanding of their heritage. Dee mistakes her family background for material and desires racial heritage because she went to school with other people and friends with popular ideas.