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“The night sky kept flashing / lightning danced down on its spindly legs” (31).

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“The winter wheat / set for harvest in June / stood helpless” (31).

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“I watched them fry / or / flatten / or blow away / like bits of cast-off rags” (31).

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“It wasn’t until the dust turned toward the house / like a fired locomotive” (32).

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“Ma and I sighed, grateful / staring out at the dirty flakes” (33).

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Getting asked to “preform at the Presidents birthday ball”(15).

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I think playing piano helped sustain her spirits

“It’s the best I’ve ever felt/playing hot piano”.

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I think that the piano helped her sustain her spirit because in this quote she’s playing the piano, “Folks sway in the/palace aisles/grinning and stomping and/ out of breath/ and the rest, eyes shining/ fingers snapping/ feet tapping”(13).

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“Arley asking me to play twice /for Joyce City”(15).

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”i remember being dazzled by her/ whenever she played the piano” (24) i think the piano sustained her spirit

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“Getting asked to do President ball.” (15)

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One thing that sustains Billie Jo’s spirits is when, “[She] got just what [she] wanted./ Permission to play at the Palace” (12 Hesse).

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“The management asked me to/ bring them talent, Billy Jo,/ and I thought of you.”(10)

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“This time i got just what i wanted./ Permission to play at the palace

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“Asked me to come and/ perform at the presidents birthday ball”(15).

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“I remember being dazzled by her / whenever she played the piano… / daddy gets soft eyes, standing behind her while she / plays.”

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“ I was determined enough, / this time I got just what I wanted. / Permission to play at the Palace.”

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Arley wanderdale asked me to “ come perform at the President’s birthday ball”(15).

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“She was distracted enough, / I was determined enough, / this time I got just what I wanted. / Permission to plat at the Palace. (12)

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her wish to play for President Roosevelt and to go to Washington D.C

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she realized she played so well that she got asked for the presidents birthday ball and maybe she’ll get to go all the way to Washington D.C.

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‘’When i point my fingers at the keys,/the music/springs straight out of me.’’

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playing piano kept her spirits up.

“In the meantime, it’s pretty nice Arley asking me to play twice”

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Billie Jos spirit was sustained when Arley Wanderdale said “The management asked me to/bring them talent, Billie Jo,/and I thought of you”(10).

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When “Arley Wanderdale asked / if [ she’d ] like to play a piano solo / at the Palace Theatre on Wednsday night.”

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”that’s a way I’ve found of gaining what I want.

By catching ma of guard, especially when I’m after permission to play piano’’

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“She was distracted enough,/ I was determined enough,/ this time I got just what I wanted./ Permission to play at the Palace.”

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what sustains Billie Jos spirits in “Dazzled”

“I remember being dazzled by her whenever she played the piano.” (Pg.24)

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I grinned / pleased to be asked, and said, / ‘’that’d be all right’’ / I didn’t know if Ma would let me. / She’s an old mule on the subject of my schooling.

(Hesse 10)

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”But I’m good enough for Arley, I guess” (25).

With this it shows that she feels a little on par (same) with her mom

(Hesse)

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“It’s the best” just tells a lot about billy Jo loving to play the piano

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She thinks of a poem to slowly glide along the song to help her in her life and the song

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twice for Joyce city

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From the chapter “Permission To Play” I will be typing a quote from the book that is a reason her spirits were sustained during the Great Depression “[She] got just what [she] wanted./

Permission to play [piano] at the Palace”

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“I remember being dazzled by her

whenever she played the piano.”

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She also got her spirts up when she go asked to play twice for Joyce City

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‘’Arley put his across my shoulder / and asked me to come and / perform at the president’s birthday ball/ ma can’t say no to this one.’’

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“Arley Wanderdale asked / if i’d like to play a piano solo / at the Palace Theatre on Wednesday night,” (10).

“I grinned, / pleased to be asked,” (10).

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“I grinned, / pleased to be asked, and said, / ‘That’d be all right’ “(10).

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‘“Arley Wanderdale asked / if I’d like to play a piano solo at the Palce Theatre on Wednesday night / I grinned

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This sustains Billie Jo’s spirts ‘’Arley wanderdale asked if I’d like to play a piano solo at the palace Theatre on Wednesday night,” (10)