In the book, “Out of the dust”, the characters suffer through a lot of loss and hardship, but in the end, they overcome these hardships. Billie Jo becomes not able to play piano because of her burnt hands, Billie Jo’s mom dies along with her boy in the process, and her father acts like he doesn’t love her anymore. But, she plays piano in the end. She finds that just because her mom dies, she still has ma in her heart. And Pa hugs her after she comes back home. First, even though Billie Jo has burnt and deformed hands she overcomes the disability and plays piano in the end. When she throws the pail of kerosene onto ma, she attempted to pat the fire out of ma with her hands… her hands. It burnt both of them severely bad in the end. And stopped her from playing piano for a while. But after feeling joyful and confident in the end of the book, she played the piano again. This shows that know matter what happens, you can always overcome it. Just like Billie Jo did in the book. …show more content…
But Billie Jo overcomes this in the end and finds that she still has ma in her heart. Whenever Ma died Billie Jo was sad. And it didn’t help that Pa didn’t comfort her at the time. But whenever she came back home and Pa gave her a hug, it reminded her that he loved her. So, she went home, set down at the piano, and played with Ma’s spirits. It reminded her that she still had ma in her heart and Pa still loved