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Billie Jo used to love piano, but now since Ma passed she “can’t hardly stay in the same room with one” (Hesse, 87).

It’s even worse if it’s her Ma’s piano from home.

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Ma’s death hurt Billie Jo

Billie Jo feels sad about ma’s death

piece from the world

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Family’s hope gone

Bittersweet when meet babies

Pa is a stranger

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After the Accident, Billie “can’t hardly stay in the same room with [a piano], especially Ma’s” because it reminds Billie to much of her (and maybe Franklin, too) (87).

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Ma’s enormous belly

A fragile baby born

Rest in peace Franklin

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Grabbed pan and burnt hand

Skin came off. Doctor cut it.

No piano anymore now.

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Billie Jo’s piano has affected her life positively. When her mom died, she would help her father out with money and when she played at the Palace Theatre she “got third prize, one dollar” which helped her and her father (133).

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DUST STORMS

It ruins her dreams

People feel trapped by the dust

It causes them despair

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Billie Jo has dreams of becoming a great piano player “but [she] does not know if [she] could win anything” (128).

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Billie Jo thinks that “Maybe they could feel at ease with me” when she plays a that he will do a good job (128).

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The piano also had a negative effect because she can’t play anymore “but [her] hands are no good anymore / [her] playing no good anymore”.and she lost her safe place she can’t even be in the “ same room as one especially not Ma’s. (132,82)

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Reagan L.  Hardships Haiku Billie Jo’s  injury 

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Reagan L.  Hardships Haiku Billie Jo’s  injury 

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Billie Jo’s view of the future

She once viewed piano as

Her place in the world

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The Piano had a positive effect on Billie Jo because “to play piano for some show’’ would help her improve(28).

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At the beginning of the book Billie Jo had “a hunger for playing fierce piano”,and she described it as something that she loved, not something that she was forced to do.

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at the palace theater ,the piano “made [billie Jo] forgot the pain… and [she] got… one dollar”,for doing so good (132).

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When Billie Jo thinks of the piano, she thinks of her “hands [screaming] with pain for days” and her “hands all scarred up” , and how she can’t play piano anymore (Hesse 128,135).

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Billie Jo found her purpose through being “dazzled by her [Ma]/ whenever she played the piano”(24).

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When Billie was playing the piano it made ‘“a tortured sound’’ which made her angry so she ‘’hit the keys with [her] fist’’,

causing the piano to break (63-64).

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she said that with the piano she raised “33 dollars a little more then last year” in the performance for Franklin D Roosevelt

(98).

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Olivia Poast Haiku, Dust Storm’s revised

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Olivia Poast Haiku, Dust Storm’s revised

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All the crops are gone

The storm blacked out the sky

Big dusty storm gone

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Billie Jo felt upset because when she “hit the keys, and played the piano a tortured sound came from it” this made Billie Jo upset because she couldn’t play the piano with her injured hands (63).

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Who was a nice joy

One who lived for an hour

That was my brother

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Billie Jo shows how the piano has a negative impact when she plays and “a tortured sound [comes] from the piano”, showing how the wind has a negative impact on the piano, which has a negative impact on Billie Jo (63).

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it makes [her] happy about when she says’’ no one can say that Billie Jo plays like a cripple’’(135.)

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She “plays like a cripple” and think her “playing’s no good” ,because of that when asked to play she said “no”(134-136).

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“I as angry at Ma for letting in the dust I cleaned off the keys but when I played a tortured sound came from the piano like someone shrieking“(63-64).

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Billie Jo’s whole mind was seeing all of the piano “[break] into a hundred pieces’’ ,and broke her dreams into pieces (64).

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Billie Joe has to “make [her] hands work” even though “[her] arms throb” with the pain. Piano has become a negative experience for Billie.

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Now Billie Jo can hardly “stand next to a piano”(87).

She once liked playing the piano but now it just makes her feel depressed.

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The night of the president’s Ball “Arley Wanderdale and the Black Mesa Boys” played all night and announced that they “raised thirty-three dollars for infantile paralysis” (115).

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“If [billie]had known a storm like this would come”.

This shows people feel like it their fault that when the storms come they feel like they can do more about it and feel bad.

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Ma’s death |

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Humongous bad fire

Died because of kerosene

Oh, no so dang sad

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Billie Jo “got burned bad” and she couldn’t play piano anymore (60).

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Dust storms left and right

No more crops no more water

More hard work for Billie.

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After Billie Jo performed she felt pain in her hands”but the applause made [her] forget the pain, the audience roared when [she] finished”(132).

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People can’t escape

Feels like a scary monster

Dust comes down your nose

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When Arley Wanderdale asked Billie if “[she’d] like to play a piano solo” at the Palace Theatre, Billie Jo was “pleased to be asked” (10).

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Ma’s death

Laying in her bed,

Ma’s in lots and lots of pain,

She died, giving birth.

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when Billie was playing piano on stage while the audience is “ grinning and stomping”, happy because Billie is “playing [ the] piano” and “it’s the best [ Billie’s] ever felt” as well ( 13-14).

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Billie can’t do shows with Arley, she can’t play the piano there because Billie says she plays “like a cripple… [her] hands are no good anymore/ [her] playings no good” and Billie feel lost all her joy and happiness in playing it (136).

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Billie “couldn’t play” the piano because she “had swollen lumps for hands” (65).

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Billie Jo her talent for the piano, can’t play because of her burned hands and when she played “ a tortured sound came from the piano” (63).

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Ma’s death kills

The dust storms killed all crops

Ma couldn’t Stop dust

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Even now, after lots of practice Billie still thinks that her “hands are no good” she even thinks she played “like a cripple at Arley’s show” even if she didn’t play bad she still thinks that she did, and that playing the piano “like a cripple” really brings down her soul and the way she thinks about herself breaking down her spirit (136)

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At the Palace Theatre Arley Wanderdale asks [Billie Jo] if “she would like to play a piano solo at the Palace Theatre on Wednesday night” ( 10).

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Billie Jo’s piano got covered in dust and when she only played a few notes a loud “tortured sound came from the piano” and when Billie heard that disgusting sound she “hit the keys with [her] fist”, and after that happened the piano broke (Hesse, 63,64).

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Franklin oh Franklin

Meet your sister Billie Jo

Oh snap, you are dead!

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In Billie Jo’s dream she, “hit the keys with [her] fist and the piano broke into / a hundred peaces” show ing that with her hands beat up piano is like a burden to her now (64).

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Billie Jo tried to play the piano but instead of a beautiful sound coming out “a tortured sound came from the piano [so she]… hit the keys with [her] fists”(63-65).

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Billie Jo had love for the piano, but her hands are deformed so when she tries to play, “a tortured sound game from the piano” and it makes her love for piano go away. Then when Arley Wanderdale tells her that her hands “could play piano again” if she “would only try” (63,89)

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Sleeping peacefully

Sand is in my nose and mouth

People scream and run

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Billie Jo liked to play the piano then one day she went to play “the piano broke into a hundred pieces’’ then she can’t play anymore.(64)

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Billie Jo’s hands “[hurt] to much”(134).For her to play piano

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Soon after the show, Billie turns down an offer to play at the school because “it still hurts to much” to play piano so soon after the contest (134).

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” but if i played right enough, maybe they would see past my hands… and maybe then i would feel at ease with myself “ (128). This shows she lost some confidence but through the piano she could heal look past her hands and have ‘’peace with the past” (Mr Christie 101).

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Billie thought it’s hard to believe that “once [she] brought money in too, even if it was just a dime now and then” (87). Now Billie can’t hardly “stay in the same room with one” especially Ma’s (87).

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Billie Jo accomplished her piano skills by practicing “[her] best piece over and over” (127).

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Franklin, oh Franklin

Where art thou oh Franklin now

Now dead to the end

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Sunshine and rainbows :)

ENTER THE MASSIVE DUST STORM

*final boss music*

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Billie Jo “hit the piano with [her] fist” showing the anger because it reminded her of her mother and her little brother that passed(63).

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When Billie Jo plays the piano she drops ‘’right inside the music’’,as she plays because the music puts her into peace and she can feel calm (132).

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Billie had to see “how supremely… [how] playing piano can be” Billie was proud how talented she is (14).

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Billie “hit the keys with [her] fist, and the piano broke into/ a hundred pieces” (64). This shows that Billie Jo was mad at the accident and her Ma.

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Billie Jo really needs to “feel at ease with [herself]’’ (128).

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At school when Arley Wanderdale asks Billie Jo to do a solo at the palace theatre, he says “The management asked [him] to bring them talent, Billie Jo, and I thought of you” (10). This shows how when Billie accepts, she thinks she really has a way out of the dust.

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Billie Jo thinks the piano “is heaven”{14}, because the sound sooths her mind and she can relax when she plays it.

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Billie Jo got “permission to play at the palace”,so she asked her mom and she said yes.(12)

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“Arley”has “asked [Billie] to play a piano solo” and it was “the best [Billie] has ever felt” when “playing piano”(10,13-14).

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Billie is livid

Pa is pretending she’s fake

She quits piano

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Billie Jo has “a hunger bigger than Joyce City” and her “hands all scarred up”(128).

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Ma died with Franklin

Billie is sad about Ma

Ma will rest in peace

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“Arley says [Billie Jo’s] piano playing is good” in the book, showing that she is good at it and should keep trying.

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In the text out of the dust the main care term loses her ma and can’t play the piano she loves because of those she “had lumps for hands” but when she tried to play “a tortured sound came from the piano”(63,65)

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Billie Jo had a negative effect with the piano and MA so when Billie Jo played the piano she heard “a tortured sound come from the piano” Billie Jo feels like her talent is waisted on with not being able to play the piano(63)

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Dust storms ruined lives

People could have not escaped

People got injured

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Billie Jo “can’t hardly stay in the same room” with a piano, because she thinks of Ma (87).

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Hands hurt to play now

What’s out of the dust more now

Hands are broken now

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Billie Jo thinks she played “like a cripple at [Arley Wanderdale’s] show”, and she thinks her “hands are no good anymore”, because of her “hands hurting/ straight up to [her] shoulders” (132, 135-136)

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Billie Jo loves “playing piano” because its like “heaven”(14)

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I want to play it.

The big dusty piano.

But I can’t, my hand.

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it causes Billie Jo to have feelings for [her] mother because the piano reminds [her] of Ma ‘’at home, I sit at Ma’s piano, I don’t touch the keys. I don’t know why’’(135.)

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Billie Jo thought that she wouldn’t play well and the crowd wouldn’t like it “Course they never will” like Billie’s performance (128)

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at the palace theater Billie Jo, enjoyed playing the piano so much that she “[forgot] the pain…[she] got third place”(132).

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When Billie Jo heard a “tortured sound…from the piano” she immediately “hit the keys with [her] fist” showing how mad she was that one of her favorite things is now ruined all from the dust (63,64).

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In the book, Out of the Dust, Billie finally decide to “make [her] hands work…at the school piano”, determined to get the “one-dollar third” prize (127-128).

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At the theater the piano “made [her] forget the    pain…and she got” third place, which the third place winner got one dollar, for doing the best she could with her injury (132).

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At the theater the piano “made [her] forget the    pain…and she got” third place, which the third place winner got one dollar, for doing the best she could with her injury (132).

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Landon

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Billie Jo plays “buttery rhythms” on the piano at the “Palace Theatre on Wednesday” and when she “ points [her] fingers at the keys/the music springs straight out of” her (Hesse 10,12).

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Billie Jo was playing the piano at the “packed Palace Theatre”

Billie “dropped right into the music” with clapping…”the applause made me forget about the pain” “and the audience roared when I finished” when Billie played the piano there was hope(132).

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Dust was in the air

Hopes were at an all time low

Dust couldn’t be stopped

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Even when Billie’s “hands [started] hurting/ … [all the way] up to [her] shoulders” ,but when she heard “the [sound of the] applause/ [it] made [her] forget the pain”. Showing even in times of injury and pain she still put a smile on her face because she was proud of herself, and that you can be happy even while hurt (132).

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The piano had a positive effect on Billie Jo, because the piano had such a graceful sound she would always think if the “music taking [her]/ so far away one day” (Hesse, 28).

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Once Billie Jo injured her hand, she thought that “[her] hands are no good anymore” and that her “playing’s no good”(136).

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At home Billie Jo ‘’practiced [her] best piece over and over again’’ to get a chance to live a real childhood and to experience life’s challenges displayed in a contest in the book Out Of The Dust (127).

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Since Ma died “[Billie] thinks about Ma” all the time(23).

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Billie feels weird about babies

Franklin represented hope

Remind her Franklins death

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One way the piano has a positive affect on Billie Jo is when “ [she earns] a little money playing” which is very important in this time when 3 cents would be like 100 dollars (49).

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The piano was almost taunting Billie because whenever she played her scarred hands “scream with pain for days” after playing the piano making Billie disappointed(135).

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While playing at the Palace Theater, Billie forgot all about “the pain” in her arms, and she felt “like [she] was part of something grand” (132-133).

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Billie Jo earlier in the book burned herself so she doesn’t believe “[she] don’t know if [I] could win anything” (128)

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The piano had a positive impact on Billie’s because it made her “forget the pain” and she felt relived (132).