Summary Of The Poem Snapping Beans By Lisa Parker Analysis

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Steadily Fading Most people think that being in college and living far from their family is a relief. Lisa Parker’s “Snapping Beans” tells how a young lady’s college experience was different. It wasn’t a relief from home. The “hickory leaf still summer green” blown off the tree symbolizes the young lady because she left her comfort place when she left for college in the North. She blew away from her family, as the leaf blew away from the tree. Smoldering inside, wishing she could answer her grandma’s question “How’s school a-goin’?” with more than just “School’s fine.” In the poem “Grandma hummed “What A Friend We Have In Jesus” as the sun rose, pushing its pink spikes through the slant of cornstalks, through the fly-eyed mesh of the screen.” This shows that her grandma is old fashioned and religious and her home is in the country. “Grandma stopped humming. I could feel the soft gray stare against the side of my face when she asked, How’s school a-goin’?”. This sentence from the poem shows that grandma stares at her in a neutral way because …show more content…
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

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