Snapping People People, like beans, can snap so easily. In the poem, “Snapping Beans,” by Lisa Parker we see just easily people can break or change. It also shows us just how fast those things can happen. In the beginning of the poem we notice the words, “silver bowl,” telling us that this is a very special occasion, maybe because the young girl never really comes home. The girl kept saying, “I wanted to tell her,” she can’t tell her though because she doesn’t want her grandma to be disappointed, but her grandma already knows she has changed. “She held my face the way she held tomatoes,” careful not to break her. She says she, “cries into the heartsick panels of the quilt she made her,” and her friends wear nose rings and write
