After reading Marilyn Hilton’s novel, Full Cicada Moon, I began to understand sheltered communities and how they slowly adjust to differences amongst themselves. Sheltered communities do not accept differences, in the book Full Cicada Moon. The main character, Mimi, moves to a small town in Vermont where people in the community do not accept diversity. For instance, when Papa waves to Mr. Dell, he never waves back. “Maybe he can’t see very well. Or maybe he doesn’t like us” says Papa. (P. 54) When Mr. Dell first sees Mimi’s family, he does not know what to think when Mimi’s father waves to him, he never waves back. Later in the chapter Mimi says that she and her cousins are all in the “other box” of the school registration form, and they