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Snapping Beans By Lisa Parker Summary

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Blown Away Everything changes, as do the seasons. In the poem, “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker, a girl in college comes home for the weekend and snaps beans into a silver bowl on the porch with her Grandma. As they snap the beans, her grandma asks her about school which is answered in a short reply of “School’s fine.” Shortly after, a hickory leaf skids across the porch. After noticing the leaf, her Grandma states, “It’s funny how things blow loose like that.” The leaf is symbolic of the girl in this poem. As the leaf breaks off the limb of the tree and blows into the wind, the girl is breaking away from her roots in which she was raised and comes from. At college, she is changing herself to fit in with her new “friends.” She is afraid
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