There seems to be not a lot of plants and the town seems to be dark. Then TJ gets the gang to grow a garden on the roof of a factory. This is when the wasteland is turned into a garden. The gang grew some grass on the roof of the factory. The setting was then changed into a garden because the grass gave a sense of harmony with nature and the environment.
For example She Said “When I think of the hometown of my young all that I seem to remember is dust-brown crumbly dust of late summer- arid sterile dust that the eyes and makes them water, get into the throat, and between the toes of my bare brown feet. The second theme to me was when Lizabeth had to grow up. For example in the setting of the story the story showed poverty. Lizabeth parents are constantly working to provide
In the book “Seedfolks” By Paul Fleishman, Theres this Vietnamese girl named kim. Kim is only 9 years old she last saw her dad. She was only eight months born after he died. He was a farmer watched his beans break ground and spread and would notice with pleasure. Lived over there in Cleveland heights for eighteen years.
With the connection, these two women have developed they create a sense of family to raise their children. Along with the developing friendship, Taylor helps Lou Ann with the struggle of her husband leaving “When something was bugging Angel, he’d never of stayed up half the night with me talking and eating everything that wasn’t nailed down” (120). This is one realization that communities are a necessity to support others through
Then, she returns back to the script. Mildred responds, “I didn’t do that”. Then, she continues with the script. “‘That’s what the lady said.’ She turned back to the script.”
Yardsale by Mattie O'Kelley depicts her personal country life experience at a neighborhood yardsale. There are trees in various sizes with colorful flower buds at the foreground, and plain leafed trees in the background; two narrow streets leading to a house and a barn; local gardens with vegetables, household materials in display outside for sell; and some men, women, boys, and girls communicating with each other, while the other individuals do activities or business of their own. On the contrary, The Old Homestead's subject matter includes a dirty property with worn out farmhouses in the background, branches of trees falling off from their main roots, a creek flowing gently, poor cattle lying on the field, plants breaking through the fences, a cart-drawn horse carrying hays and three children — one driving the horse cart in the front and two sitting on the hays at the back. The situation in Yardsale is much more organized and comfortable with adults and young children accompanying each other. On the other hand, The Old Homestead pictured unsupervised children playing and being incautious of their disintegrating-wretched
Not only do they reinforce relationships among each other in the community, but they implement relationships with nature everyday in their lives as
Introduction: “It’s important to have loyal friends” If your friends are not loyal, stop being friends with them. In this essay I will be comparing the short story “Minnows & Zombies” and the short film “Partly cloudy” In the short story, “Minnows & Zombies,” by Rita Williams Garcia, is about a kid that goes to a swimming summer camp and breaks a record with his friends so the leaders take them to the seven eleven down the street. On the way they pass multiple “zombies” who are just homeless people and the kids are scared and hold close to each other, so the leader named Daisy “protects” them, then they get to the seven eleven and go get the popsicles and leave, the kid looks back and sees Daisy buy a water bottle for a “zombie” and the kid
The book SeedFolks is about how this group of people starts a garden in the middle of cleveland which is a really bad place at this time. It starts with a character named Kim who is trying to prove that she is her dad’s daughter. The reason for this is that her dad died before she was born. The book is about how the garden kind of starts to help and improve the city and remove stereotypes and helps the people in it and around it have better lives. Some of the people from this is Maricella who is a 16 year old girl thats hispanic and pregnant who hates her baby.
Themes: Loss Throughout the book loss is always prevalent. In the beginning of the book Barns are being burnt down. Not only just the barns were burned the animals inside and along with the hay. This was devastating to the amish because that his how they made their living.
At the end of the The Monkey Garden most people felt sorry for the young girl that was an outcast because she did not want to grow up. However, the narrator must learn that things changed and people change too. She needs to realize her friends are growing up and hanging with boys is acceptable. She must learn that perspectives change throughout life and not everything stays the same. The Monkey Garden won 't always be a safe magically place.
Seedfolks is not just a simple book that focus on one character. Seedfolks is more than that, it was meant for a purpose, therefore there are many characters in the story who play important roles. This book shares variety of ideas to help our children to learn about diversity, it establish connection to (with facts and experiences that could help us in our real world and society.) the real world with real facts and experiences in society and young readers should be encourage to read Seedfolks, Sam a Jewish man in the story, is also one of the thirteen characters and he illustrates examples of respect in multiculturalism, opportunities when working with diverse people, he helps you opens your eyes to perceive the world around us in different
“Men live here as long as their sons live, to see the clearings their axes have made and the living grass that sprang from their tracks in the first furrow and the green things their hands gave life to. ”(197 Buckler) Since Martin assumes that David loves this backbreaking work that gives a sense of accomplishment when they finish working a field he never thinks to ask David what he wants for his life. Although David despises working in the field with the oxen he survives with dreams of leaving for the city so he can be a part of civilization and not live excluded from the world outside his father’s farm. In The Garden Party, Laura is a lively free spirited individual.
The world they lived in was different, but some of the decisions and challenges are the same. C. The green leaf that lands on the porch symbolizes Lisa. The tree was necessary for the green hickory leaf to grow and have life, but the wind blows the leaf to a new place; just as Lisa cares about her grandmother and the care that she received from her. But now Lisa has moved to her new place in life at
Through her use of symbolism the author shows how much the marigolds mean to Miss Lottie. Through her use of point of view readers have a clear view of the look and atmosphere of the old town and the how the marigolds were the only beautiful thing
