She keeps the explicit, and heartbreaking things she has learned and is experiencing in college from her grandma. She knows if she tells her grandma “about the nights I cried into the familiar heartsick panels of the quilt she made me, wishing home on the evening star. I wanted to tell her the evening star was a planet.” Her grandma wouldn’t believe her. Since her grandma is so old fashioned and religious she wouldn’t even want her to know the things because she wouldn’t want to ruin what she believes her “shout of faith”. “Grandma said, It’s funny how things blow loose like that.” Her grandma knows she isn’t telling her everything and she knows that college is blowing her farther away from her. She left her home, her comfort, her family to go to college and is changing because of what she is experiencing and afraid
She keeps the explicit, and heartbreaking things she has learned and is experiencing in college from her grandma. She knows if she tells her grandma “about the nights I cried into the familiar heartsick panels of the quilt she made me, wishing home on the evening star. I wanted to tell her the evening star was a planet.” Her grandma wouldn’t believe her. Since her grandma is so old fashioned and religious she wouldn’t even want her to know the things because she wouldn’t want to ruin what she believes her “shout of faith”. “Grandma said, It’s funny how things blow loose like that.” Her grandma knows she isn’t telling her everything and she knows that college is blowing her farther away from her. She left her home, her comfort, her family to go to college and is changing because of what she is experiencing and afraid