In the poem “Snapping beans” by Lisa Parker, she tell us of a girl who has become overwhelmed with college and the different things she has learned. The reason she feels this way is because of her beliefs she learned since a youth and conflicts with what she experiencing. This stops her from sharing information with her grandmother. This poem touches on love, change, and confusion.
Love is expressed in this poem with the way the grandmother and granddaughter treated each other. Imagery is used to describe the grandmother towards the end of the story “the slick smooth of her palm held my face the way she held tomatoes under the spigot.” This paints us a mental image of how soft the grandmother hands are and how softly the grandmother held her
Love is expressed in this poem with the way the grandmother and granddaughter treated each other. Imagery is used to describe the grandmother towards the end of the story “the slick smooth of her palm held my face the way she held tomatoes under the spigot.” This paints us a mental image of how soft the grandmother hands are and how softly the grandmother held her