Option F: Even though she received a box of her mother’s things, Lily carries around mouse bones in her pocket. She found them under her bed. She doesn’t know why she carries them. “Sitting in the purple shadows, I pulled out the mouse bones and worked them between my fingers.” Lily carries the bones because they remind her of her dead mother. Her mother may have passed, but her mother is still in need of caring. The bones represent loving something that is dead. “I decided sometimes you just need to nurse something, that’s all.” Lily feels attached to them like a baby is attached to a sleep toy. .8swag8
After August told Lily all about her mother, she brought Lily some of Deborah’s belongings. One of those belongings was a pin. Lily wears that pin constantly and she doesn’t let anyone touch it. I have my grandpa’s chain necklace that I keep in a secret, safe spot. I am afraid to wear it in case it gets lost or damaged. For her, that pin might symbolize her mother’s hug, or just Deborah being with her daughter. This would be really important to Lily, and I can see why she wouldn’t want anyone to touch her precious item.
On the last day of the Mary day, August brings Deborah’s belongings to Lily which Deborah left before she died. August explains that she remembered that morning about the box in which Deborah kept some of her belongings the day she went back to Sylvan. At the beginning August was kind of shocked because she thought that this box of belongings would be like jackpot for Lily; Lily pretended not to be interested by saying “Just tell me what’s in it” but actually when August opened the box, Lily started peek. There was a pocket hand mirror, August said “If you look in here, you’re gonna see your mother’s face looking back at you” and Lily thought “I will never look in that mirror.” Then there was a “hairbrush with wooden handle,” a pin, a book and a picture of Lily and her mother. She finds mouse bones under her bed after the incident of August giving Deborah’s belongings to Lily. Soon she takes it and carries it in her pocket. “Next I gathered up the mouse bones that I’d keep in my pockets, realizing I didn’t need to carry them around anymore. But I knew I couldn’t throw them away either, so…..fan.” This sentence shows that Lily carried the mouse bones in her pocket and had some kind of attachment with it. Lily finds the mouse bones under her bed when she was looking at her mother’s belongings. I think Lily carrying/owning mouse’s bones is like a boy owning a princess castle and doll set (odd/weird). Therefore, I think Lily makes some connection between the mouse bones and the sentimental day on which she learned of her mother's love for her. Lily is in an emotionally sensitive state, and she therefore displays some seemingly angry behavior like throwing of the honey jars on the wall. One reason I think she keeps the bones id that she might have felt that the bones could be from a mouse Deborah once saw. I also think that the bones could symbolize Deborah's dead body. I too have a belonging that symbolizes someone—a small red lamp which belonged to my grandfather, it symbolizes that he was like a ray of light/hope for many people who needed help including his friends relatives and even the people he didn’t know at the beginning.
Option F:
ReplyDeleteEven though she received a box of her mother’s things, Lily carries around mouse bones in her pocket. She found them under her bed. She doesn’t know why she carries them. “Sitting in the purple shadows, I pulled out the mouse bones and worked them between my fingers.”
Lily carries the bones because they remind her of her dead mother. Her mother may have passed, but her mother is still in need of caring. The bones represent loving something that is dead. “I decided sometimes you just need to nurse something, that’s all.” Lily feels attached to them like a baby is attached to a sleep toy.
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After August told Lily all about her mother, she brought Lily some of Deborah’s belongings. One of those belongings was a pin. Lily wears that pin constantly and she doesn’t let anyone touch it. I have my grandpa’s chain necklace that I keep in a secret, safe spot. I am afraid to wear it in case it gets lost or damaged. For her, that pin might symbolize her mother’s hug, or just Deborah being with her daughter. This would be really important to Lily, and I can see why she wouldn’t want anyone to touch her precious item.
ReplyDeleteOn the last day of the Mary day, August brings Deborah’s belongings to Lily which Deborah left before she died. August explains that she remembered that morning about the box in which Deborah kept some of her belongings the day she went back to Sylvan. At the beginning August was kind of shocked because she thought that this box of belongings would be like jackpot for Lily; Lily pretended not to be interested by saying “Just tell me what’s in it” but actually when August opened the box, Lily started peek. There was a pocket hand mirror, August said “If you look in here, you’re gonna see your mother’s face looking back at you” and Lily thought “I will never look in that mirror.” Then there was a “hairbrush with wooden handle,” a pin, a book and a picture of Lily and her mother. She finds mouse bones under her bed after the incident of August giving Deborah’s belongings to Lily. Soon she takes it and carries it in her pocket.
ReplyDelete“Next I gathered up the mouse bones that I’d keep in my pockets, realizing I didn’t need to carry them around anymore. But I knew I couldn’t throw them away either, so…..fan.” This sentence shows that Lily carried the mouse bones in her pocket and had some kind of attachment with it. Lily finds the mouse bones under her bed when she was looking at her mother’s belongings. I think Lily carrying/owning mouse’s bones is like a boy owning a princess castle and doll set (odd/weird). Therefore, I think Lily makes some connection between the mouse bones and the sentimental day on which she learned of her mother's love for her. Lily is in an emotionally sensitive state, and she therefore displays some seemingly angry behavior like throwing of the honey jars on the wall. One reason I think she keeps the bones id that she might have felt that the bones could be from a mouse Deborah once saw. I also think that the bones could symbolize Deborah's dead body. I too have a belonging that symbolizes someone—a small red lamp which belonged to my grandfather, it symbolizes that he was like a ray of light/hope for many people who needed help including his friends relatives and even the people he didn’t know at the beginning.