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is so committed to the piano.  Overall, this effects the reader's understanding of Billie Jo throughout the rest of the book and even can create the comparison between Billie and her father.  Her father with his crops and Billie Jo with her piano, both will do anything for their passions.

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1. ¨That's A way I´ve found of gaining what i want,by catching Ma off guard,especially when iḿ after permission to play piano.
Right out asking her is no good.
She always gets testy about me playing,even though sheś the one who truly caught me.¨ (Hesse 12).

2. This shows that Billie Jo takes advantage of her mom, and her mom is stressed because she has a baby in her and she doesn't know if the baby is going to die or not. So when her mom dies Billie Jo is going to regret taking her mom for granted.

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1.  "And every little crowd is grateful to hear a rag or two played on the piano by a long-legged, red-haired girl, even when the piano has a few keys soured by dust" (Hesse 49).
2.  This piece of imagery helped me recreate what Billie Jo would have looked like as she was plalying the piano.  Also, the fact that they explained her as a young kid in this scence, made her seem very stong since she could play so well at her age.
This text evidence has shown me part of how dedicated Billie Jo is, due to the fact that she (still finishing)

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1."The neighbor woman came. Wrapped my baby brother in a blanket and placed him in Ma's bandaged arms. We buried them together"(Hesse 70).

2.This scene gives imagery to the paragraph it helped me to see all off the bitter sweet moments in the book and shows what terrible things Billie Jo has to go through in her life.

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1."On Sunday, winds came, bringing a red dust like a prairie fire, hot and peppery, searing the inside of my nose, the whites of my eyes. Roaring dust, turning the day from sunlight to moonlight"(Hesse 46).

2. This scene gives me imagery of the storm and what it looks like in her eyes. It also makes me think how bad the storm really is in the book. The "hot and peppery" dust storm shows me that to Billie Jo, the storm is really hot through Oklahoma and it's all over the place so it isn't in just place. It almost seems as if it's saying things will get tough, but you have to fight through those times to reach great points in life. Her mom and brother died which created a bad moment in her life. She fought through that moment though to get to her point. Even though things aren't going great for her, she pushes through and tries as hard as she can. From when it shows that the dust storm turned the sunlight to moonlight, it shows that Oklahoma was being hit hard by the storm which made it worse. Her eyes were getting lots of dust in the whites of her eyes. This evidence shows that she is dealing with a tough time with herself, with others, and even with nature.

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1.  "Daddy named me Billie Jo.  He wanted a boy.  Instead, he got a long-legged girl with a wide mouth and cheekbones like bicycle handles.  He got a redheaded, freckle-faced, narrow-hipped girl with a fondness for apples and a hunger for playing fierce piano" (Hesse 3).

2. This scene gives an example of imagery and adds to the scene because I could imagine in my head how Billie Jo looked when she was a baby and now as a kid. This example uses characteristics and feeling to express the way Billie Jo looked and acted like. This example adds to the story overall because Billie Jo loves playing the piano and is redheaded, so describing her in the beginning of the book makes it a little bit easier to understand and connect to.

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1. "While we sat taking our six-weeks test, the wind rose and the sand blew right through the cracks in the schoolhouse wall, right through the gaps around the window glass, and by the time the tests were done, each and every one of us was coughing pretty good and we all needed a bath" (Hesse 37).

2. This context shows imagery because I could imagine in my head how the dust came through the walls and through the window. This line adds all that billy-jo and her family have to go through just to get through with their everyday lives and eve just taking a test they have to deal with the huge dust storms that happen in that part of Oklahoma. This poem makes the story more motivated because she is a young girl and she has to go through a dust storm just to take a test. That shows that the character in the story has motivation and that trait makes me as a reader want to keep reading and go deeper into hearing about the struggles that the author portrayed in the book . This book is really good and I would recommend it to anyone that wants to hear about a motivational story and read a good book.

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1.And Ma, with only Great-uncle Floyd, old as ancient Indian bones, and mean as a rattler, rotting away in that room down in Dallas. (Hesse 5)

2.This scene gives imagery to the text because they use a simile to describe their great uncle-floyd. this makes you think about how mean their uncle really is.

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1. "At first Ma crossed her arms against her chest and stared me down, hard-jawed and sharp, and said i couldn't go" (Hesse 49).

2.This imagery adds to the text because it helps me visualize how her ma looked when she said no. And i picture her ma as a person that treats her daughter with discipline because Billie Jo and her ma have had a hard life and so i think her ma wants to teach her daughter some discipline.

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1."the wind rose and the sand blew right through the cracks in the school house wall,right through the gasp around the window glass and by the time the test were done each and every one of us was coughing pretty good" (hesse 37)

2.this i a hyperbole because it shows what she has seen and thinking.

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1. "At first Ma crossed her arms against her chest and stared me down, hard-jawed and sharp, and said I couldn't go" (Hesse 49).
2. (Background info: Billy Jo wants to go and play the piano for people) This imagery adds to this scene because, even if it didn't say that Ma said no, the way Ma stood there, staring at Billy Jo, is answer enough. The reason she said no could have been because she wanted Billy Jo to stay and help around the house and farm, or maybe just because Ma wants Billy Jo to focus solely on school. This imagery adds to the story overall because even though Ma 'leaves' later, and this might not be the best memory, it is still a memory that Billy Jo will most likely hold onto.

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1."Ma and I sighed, grateful, staring out at the dirty flakes, but our relief didn't last. The wind snatched that snow right off the fields, leaving behind a sea of dust, waves and waves and waves of dust, rippling across our yard" (Hesse 33).

2. This is a metaphor because it's describing how much dust is there and it's comparing it to as sea since there must be a lot of dust.

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1. "'...Without the sod the water vanished, the soil turned to dust. Until the wind took it, lifting it up and carrying it away. Such a sorrow doesn't come suddenly, there are a thousand steps to take before you get there.' But now, sorrow climbs up our front steps, big as texas, and we didn't even see it coming, even though it'd been making its way straight for us all along" (Hesse 84).

2. The personification adds to the poem/scene because it shows how there was no way to "escape" the sorrow and that the sorrow sort of came to them. It helps us understand how sorrow must have had a big impact on the town because the author presents sorrow in a way that makes it seem like sorrow happened as an effect and the people didn't bring sorrow upon themselves.

This personification adds to the story over all because it gives us a deeper understanding of why the character acts this way and why the town is this way. Also, it shows that something might happen later in the book that relieve the sorrow or possibly bring more sorrow.

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1)"I know rabbits eat what they shouldn't, especially this time of the year when they could hop halfway to liberal and still not find any food, but Miss Freeland says if we keep plowing under the stuff they ought to be eating, what are they supposed to do?"(Hesse 6)
2) This is a hyperbole. It adds to the poem/scene because it

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1. "My place in the world is at the piano.  I'm earning a little money playing, thanks to Arley Wanderdale... [E]very little crowd is grateful to hear a rag or two played on the piano by a long-legged, red-haired girl, even when the piano has a few keys soured with dust"( Hesse 49).

2. This imagery adds to the poem/scene because it helps the readers  understand how important it is for her to play the piano, no matter what condition she or the piano may be in.  It shows how much playing the piano is a vital part of her life.

This imagery add to the story overall because it might be foreshadowing that she might not be able to play the piano anymore, or that her piano career might take her somewhere new, where her life might be better

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1) "And every little crowd is grateful to hear a rag or two played on the piano by a long-legged, red-haired girl, even when the piano has a few keys soured by dust" (Hesse 49).
2) I chose this imagery because the details allow me to imagine what this girl playing the piano looks like. I think this adds to the poem because it not only describes what the girl playing looks like, and how the crowd appreciates the piano player, but it also goes back to the dust on the piano and how the storms affect the little things like playing the piano. It also allows me to imagine the setting and what it looks like because the details added about the little crowd, the girl playing the piano, and the way the dust sits on the keys.

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1.¨They ought to just shut up.
betting on how many rabbits they can 🤬.
honestly!
Grown men clubbing bunnies to death.¨ (Hesse 6)
2. imagery because i can see the grown men clubbing bunnies to death.