comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room . . . anyone can come and sit and 

look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house."

This quote describes the atmosphere and vibe of the house, which is where the story takes place.

they don’t make shingle roofs anymore. There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in 

a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutters up on the outside. This house is in a pasture 

too, like the other one.

swept clean as a oor and the ne sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and 

look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house. "

I chose this because this is describing the setting of the story as it shows that they are in a yard outside of the house.

“I reckon she would,” I said. “God knows I been saving ’em for long enough with nobody using ’em. I hope she will!” I 

didn’t want to bring up how I had oered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told they 

were old-fashioned, out of style. 

“But they’re priceless!” she was saying now, furiously; for she has a temper. “Maggie would put them on the bed and in 

ve years they’d be in rags. Less than that!” 

“She can always make some more,” I said. “Maggie knows how to quilt.” 

Dee (Wangero) looked at me with hatred. “You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts!” 

“Well,” I said, stumped. “What would you do with them?” (dee vs mama. It shows key parts of Dee´s character being clingy to the past and wanting to preserve them and possibly a hidden jealousy of maggie.)

“No, Mama,” she says. “Not ‘Dee,’ Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo!” 

“What happened to ‘Dee’?” I wanted to know. 

“She’s dead,” Wangero said. “I couldn’t bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me.”  (symbolizes Dee´s yearning for freedom and her moving away from her family and getting more independence)

to school."

This quote shows the conflict between Maggie and Dee.

Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. One was in the Lone Star pattern. 

The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and 

more years ago. "

This quote shows how the quilts symbolize the family's heritage.