'Homosexuals In Grapes Of Wrath'

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The lines referred to when Amy had a dream that focused on the conservative life they lived. The quote questioned the way their Pentecostal family had somehow created a fence that separates the believers and the sinners. Amy showed that grasses on the both sides were the same and nothing huge separated them as opposed to what the religious believed. In another context, Amy was frustrated with her family alienating Uncle Charles just because he was gay. She saw that the homosexuals and heterosexuals were nothing different, and Uncle Charles did not deserve the backlash. The fence that Amy was talking about referred to the religious restrictions that made it impossible for her to be closer to her Uncle Charles. She wanted the society to remove

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