Summary Of The Blackberries Of Bybanks

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One of the most important memories of Bybanks Sal has is the blackberries. In the story. Sal memorize about the blackberries because her mom was there with her and it's where all her memorize are in Bybanks and her mom loved the blackberries so Sal loved them also. One page 29 Sal said, “And then I started thinking about the blackberries, and I remembered a time my mother and I walked around the rims of the field and pastures in Bybanks, picking blackberries.”As Sal kept on thinking what her mother what say and having memories of her mom and when her mother was pregnant and Sal's father made them breakfast then they went to go find them and it gave Sal good memories of her mother and how much fun they had after her mom left.

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