Brown Girl dreaming Storyboard Hena Patel
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- Grown folks' storiesWarm autumn night with the crickets crying the smell of pine coming soft on the wind and the women on the porch, quilts across their laps, Aunt Lucinda, Miss Bell and whatever neighbor has a breath or two left at the end of the day for sitting and running their mouths.That's when we listen to the grown folks talking. Hope, Dell and me sitting quiet on the stairs. We know one word from us will bring a hush upon the women, my grandmother's finger suddenly pointing toward the house, her soft-spoken I think it's time for you kids to go to bed now ushering us into our room. So we are silent, our backs against posts and the back of the stairs, Hope's elbows on his knees, head down. Now is when we learn everything there is to know about the people down the road and the daywork houses, about the Sisters at the Kingdom Hall and the faraway relatives we rarely see.Long after the stories are told, I remember them, whisper them back to Hope and Dell late into the night: She's the one who left Nicholtown in the daytime the one Grandmama says wasn't afraid of anything. Retelling each story. Making up what I didn't understand or missed when voices dropped to low, I talk until my sister and brother's soft breaths tell me they've fallen asleep. Then I let the stories live inside my head, again and again until the real world fades back into cricket lullabies and my own dreams.
- I don't know..
- Really!?
- That girl is crazy!
- I chose this poem because I am an only child, and I've grown up around adults my entire life because I am the oldest of my cousins that live in the United States. Since I have lived around adults my entire life I have seen and heard a bunch of grown up things. I have heard all of the gossip, and I have seen a lot of family drama as well. This has caused me to act more mature than I should be because I stay around older people all the time, but it has also made me realize the reality of the world. When an event takes place everyone in the family suddenly knows about it, even the slightest events like a person dropping a plate.
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