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Snapping Beans

"Snapping Beans" by Lisa Parker"

In the poem "Snapping Beans" by Lisa Parker. The speakers feelings are of a very shy young lady who has just returned home from her first semester at college [HYPERLINK: http://www.enotes.com/poetry/q-and-a/whats-voice-snapping-beans-ascharacterization-294848] . As she sits down with her grandmother, they start engaging in the task of snapping beans together, when her grandmother asks her the question of how school is going. This question brings up a number of possible responses, and these various responses reveal the confusion and homesickness of the speaker. Note the example from the following quote from the poem:

I wanted to tell her how my ...

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identity, but even bigger stress and confusion is caused by the fact that in spite of her feelings of being different, she is actually enjoying college.

The major confusion and the internal conflict of the speaker are explored through the variety of responses that run through the speaker's head before she answers her grandmother. in the end the grandmother says "It's funny how things blow loose like that." I think that she knows her granddaughter lied to her as easy as the wind that blew that leaf. so basically its just a bond between a granddaughter and grandmother who's bond is strong that know each other so ...

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Added: 8/11/2013 07:41:21 PM
Submitted By: overschool
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Free Paper
Words: 309
Pages: 2

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