Review of Seed Folks by Tamir Mills by Tamir Mills https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku A lot is filled with trash until one day a young girl clears a small space and digs the hard-packed soil-plant for her plant beans. en-us 2018-12-18 17:44:56 UTC 2024-12-19 17:05:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Summary tmills21 https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku/wish/315629042 Leona is an energetic African-American woman who was raised with a "tough as nails" grandmother, Granny. She takes it upon herself to ensure the garden is kept trash free. In Seed-folks, Sam likes to spend his time "sewing up the rips in the neighborhood." In early April, on the tenth anniversary of her father's death, nine-year-old Kim takes a spoon, a thermos of water, and a handful of dried lima beans down to the vacant lot a short distance from her family's apartment. She chooses a small spot among the rubbish, far from the sidewalk, and digs six holes in the hard ground—one for each seed she has brought. Kim mourns the fact that her father, who had been a farmer in Vietnam, died with no memories of her. She hopes that he can see her "patience and [her] hard work" in the little garden she is starting now, and will recognize that she is his daughter.


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In May, Ana notices that Kim has not come to tend her beans for four days and that her precious plants are in danger of dying. Because Ana has hurt her ankle and cannot go down to the vacant lot herself, she calls her neighbor Wendell, who looks out for her. Ana sends Wendell over to water the plants, but when he is down at the garden, Kim arrives, and regards him with fear. Having grown up on a farm in Kentucky, Wendell knows about planting. He has scraped up a ring of dirt around one of the plants to hold the water in. Smiling as he backs away, he tries to indicate to Kim that he is just giving her plants some water. Although no words are exchanged, Kim understands that the man is only trying to help. When Wendell returns to the lot that evening, he sees that Kim has made a circle of dirt around each of her remaining plants, just as he has shown her.


Wendell is alone in the world. His wife died in an automobile accident and his son was "shot dead like a dog in the street." His meeting with Kim brings to mind the Bible verse that says, "And a little child shall lead them," and changes his life. Wendell decides that though there are many things that he cannot control, there are some things that he can. Because of Kim's example, he decides to cultivate a patch of ground in the "trashy lot" himself:

]]> 2018-12-18 17:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku/wish/315630876 Cover tmills21 https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku/wish/315634284 2018-12-18 18:07:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku/wish/315634284 Interesting Quotes tmills21 https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku/wish/316015365 “When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's offered us. I offer you mine...I'll be your friend, if you wish. The faithful kind.

“Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.” 

“You can't see Canada across Lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland. Snow in April always breaks your heart.” ]]> 2018-12-19 20:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku/wish/316015365 Why would you read seed-folks tmills21 https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku/wish/316016596 I think that people should read this book because of the fact that this book show you different parts of people life during the mid 90's but really it is coming form one person prescriptive. It was easy it to realize the thought and the main character talks about how people her family at some people help her out even if they were never their. Hearing story change her though and feeling in life.]]> 2018-12-19 20:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku/wish/316016596 song connection tmills21 https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku/wish/316018600 New life by: Layzie Bone ]]> 2018-12-19 20:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tmills21/nyoc5a672nku/wish/316018600