In the book “Out Of The Dust”, the characters faced a lot of loss and grief. They went through very many different hardships. Some hardships were extremely serious and others were minor. Billy Jo and her family are very strong for going through some of these things. I’m going to tell you how they overcame these hardships and what the hardships were. First off, Billy Jo and her family are stuck in the Panhandle of Oklahoma. Most of the people around Billy Jo and her parents died from dust pneumonia. The dust storms kept on disappearing and coming back. Many people like Billy Jo had to sleep through the storms. She overcame this by putting a wet cloth over her mouth during the night. Second, Billy Jo’s father put a pail of kerosene beside
