https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo Lena Younger en-us 2018-01-16 17:42:03 UTC 2026-02-27 17:30:10 UTC hello@padlet.com dpezzano72 https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/222178081 "Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain’t through learning – because that ain’t the time at all." This quote show that with Mama's life experience she shares her wisdom with her children. ]]> 2018-01-17 18:25:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/222178081 dpezzano72 https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/222189364 " Sun – I come for five generations of people who were slaves and sharecroppers – but ain’t nobody in my family never let nobody pay ‘em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn’t fit to walk the earth” Mama is proud of who she is and who her family is. She won’t except anyone telling her she shouldn’t be. ]]> 2018-01-17 18:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/222189364 dpezzano72 https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224068621   Lena Younger is a powerful woman who doesn’t back down. Her power makes me proud to be a female. Even though we have different views on life, I respect her and how she stands up for what she believes in. I identify with her strength and how she does everything she can for the people she loves. ]]> 2018-01-24 02:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224068621 dpezzano72 https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224071598 This painting by Van Gogh represents Lena Younger. It is a physical  embodiment of how Mama’s flowers look. The flowers represent her dreams and how they have faded over the years but she holds on to them. This is shown when Mama said, “But Lord, child, you should know all the dreams I had ‘bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little garden in the back -(She waits and stops smiling) And didn’t none of it happen.” In the way that she stops smiling while she’s talking you can tell her beautiful dreams are dead like the flowers. ]]> 2018-01-24 02:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224071598 dpezzano72 https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224074276 Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost has some parallels to Lena Younger. Much like the painting, it represents her dreams. For example, when the poem says, “So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.” it is saying that nothing last forever, like Mama’s dreams for the her home. Her dream was gold, like the poem says, but over the years it kept getting duller until eventually it did not exist.  This is similar to how the poem says, “Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour.” Mama dreams were beautiful but they didn’t last.]]> 2018-01-24 03:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224074276 dpezzano72 https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224079015 I am unwritten, can't read my mind,
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand,
Ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten

I break tradition, sometimes my tries
Are outside the line
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes,
But I can't live that way

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten]]> 2018-01-24 04:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224079015 dpezzano72 https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224329724 The song Unwritten relates to Mama starting her life again with the new house. She is getting a fresh start and a new outlook on life. When the lyrics say, "Staring at the black page before you", it's like how she gets a new chance at her dreams. ]]> 2018-01-24 17:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224329724 dpezzano72 https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224338578 "But Lord, child, you should know all the dreams I had ’bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little garden in the back—(She waits and stops smiling) And didn’t none of it happen." 
This quote shows how Mama hasn't truly given up on her dreams. She is close to reaching her dreams and so is the rest of the family. All of the family has their own dreams and the money help them achieve them. Benny wants to be a doctor and Walter wants to own a company. It is a recurring theme in the book, these are just some examples.    ]]> 2018-01-24 17:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dpezzano72/a00y7rth92uo/wish/224338578