Module 1 Lesson 24 by Richard Christie

BRIDGET, Billie Jo’s injury

2025-10-17 16:11:36 UTC

Ugly deformed hands

Talent has been blown away

Ma comes to haunt her

Fartun

abdi754 — 2025-10-17 16:11:45 UTC

Billie jo felt negative feelings from the piano when she,‘’hit the keys with [her] fist, and the piano broke into a hundred pieces’’ displaying the act of Billie Jo being furious because an object simply reminded her delicate heart of her mother and brother also after hearing a tortured sound her piano made knowing her comfort and home was ruined by dust (63).

Elsie

2025-10-17 16:12:42 UTC

Dust is falling hard

Right onto all of the fields

Land no longer safe

Eleanor: Dust storms

2025-10-17 16:13:39 UTC

Golden hay growing

Dust blows away happiness

Brown fields drowned out

B

shevli123 — 2025-10-17 16:14:23 UTC

Shawn

2025-10-17 16:14:39 UTC

At the Palace Theatre, the piano “made [Billie Jo] forget the pain… and [she] got… one dollar”, for doing so good (132).

Gavin: Ma’s death

2025-10-17 16:14:45 UTC

Family’s just been lost,

guilt keeps you from the good times.

Hopes taken away.

Juan Revised Haiku (dust storms)

2025-10-17 16:14:47 UTC

People have great dreams

They got conquered by dust storms

Now people can’t live

Anabelle Franklin’s death

2025-10-17 16:14:52 UTC

Born in a tragedy

Lived but a few moments

Dust sealed his fate

MA’S death/ Landon S

sirova062 — 2025-10-17 16:15:02 UTC

It was really sad

Ma will not be here

Ma was on fire

Bremer negative effect

2025-10-17 16:15:03 UTC

“I don't know if I could win anything, not anymore”

She used to think she could win before but now all of her confidence is gone and she is not happy (128).

Mason

2025-10-17 16:15:04 UTC

Piano ment a lot to Billie Jo, when “she got just what she wanted” which “was permission to play at the Palace” (12).

Olivia M- Franklin’s Death

moffit572 — 2025-10-17 16:15:05 UTC

Born into this world

Then taken from it quickly

Family grieving

Carter franklins death

matt600_1 — 2025-10-17 16:15:08 UTC

franklin died to young

Named after a president

Billy Jo depressed

Kora: Billie Jo’s Injury

kopper355 — 2025-10-17 16:15:13 UTC

Aww! My hands hurt so!

The piano hurts to play

No more piano

Alyssa

2025-10-17 16:15:16 UTC

Billie Jo went to the Palace Theater to perform piano even though her hands ached bad she forgot about it and “[she] got third prize” and the crowd loved it (132).

Simon

eno283 — 2025-10-17 16:15:23 UTC

Billie Jo over the piano but now that she “got burned bad” she can no longer play the piano and when she thing about she fills with regret and can never feel good about the piano again(60).

Islei

2025-10-17 16:15:28 UTC

“Playing piano” for Billie Jo is like “heaven” showing she really enjoys it and it makes her feel like she’s in heaven (14).

Madeline

mccann996 — 2025-10-17 16:15:53 UTC

Billie Jo’s injury

Billie Jo’s burned hands

Scarred with distant memories,

And her most prized skill.

Killian

martin433_2 — 2025-10-17 16:15:57 UTC

Billie Jo felt proud of herself for doing piano and wants everybody to see her talent so Billie JO “…played so well” to make herself feel shown on stage (15).

Ella s

2025-10-17 16:16:08 UTC

Billie “made [her] hands play piano” so she “won’t shame” herself (127).

Arlo

beltz408 — 2025-10-17 16:16:12 UTC

Billie Jo said “playing piano can be” like heaven (14). This shows she likes playing the piano

Kelsey (Billie Jo’s injury)

dana993 — 2025-10-17 16:16:14 UTC

Ashes kiss her skin

Piano dreams fade away

Pain goes through her hands

Isidro- Dust Storms

alvare159 — 2025-10-17 16:16:16 UTC

I will hurt you now.

No more peacefulness again.

You will die with dust.

Ryan

hamill442 — 2025-10-17 16:16:16 UTC

Her place in the world

Affects her view of the fut.

Emotional pain

Alyssa (Billie Jo’s injury)

2025-10-17 16:16:27 UTC

Hurt her hands badly

Lost her joy in piano

Lost her happiness

Eleanor

2025-10-17 16:16:58 UTC

In Billie Jo’s dream, “the piano broke into a hundred pieces” when she touched it (64).

Simon

eno283 — 2025-10-17 16:17:01 UTC

Billie Jo loves to play the piano and whenever she pays it she

“Feels like [she is] in heaven”(14).

Lily (on stage)

rischl130 — 2025-10-17 16:17:15 UTC

When Billie points her “fingers at the keys”, the music “springs straight out of [her]”. When she plays, “its the best [shes] ever felt” crazy (13).

Kinley

2025-10-17 16:17:17 UTC

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

Anabelle

2025-10-17 16:17:27 UTC

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

Tim

schweg884 — 2025-10-17 16:17:31 UTC

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).

Gavin

2025-10-17 16:17:36 UTC

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).

Reagan B

baker770 — 2025-10-17 16:17:40 UTC

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).

Ella O Franklin’s death

oconno456 — 2025-10-17 16:17:40 UTC

Billie feels weird about babies

Franklin represented hope

Remind her Franklins death

Kelsey

dana993 — 2025-10-17 16:17:41 UTC

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

Fartun

abdi754 — 2025-10-17 16:17:45 UTC

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).

Mason

2025-10-17 16:17:53 UTC

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

Olivia Poast

poast234 — 2025-10-17 16:17:56 UTC

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).

CAPTAIN ROBERT ZUERLEIN

zuerle222 — 2025-10-17 16:18:25 UTC

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).

Simon (Dust storms)

eno283 — 2025-10-17 16:18:29 UTC

Dust was in the air

Hopes were at an all time low

Dust couldn’t be stopped

Lucy

2025-10-17 16:18:38 UTC

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).

Sophie

jackma149 — 2025-10-17 16:18:40 UTC

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).

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).

mclaug036 — 2025-10-17 16:18:45 UTC

Landon

Josiah M. Bailey

bailey357 — 2025-10-17 16:18:50 UTC

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).

Islei

2025-10-17 16:18:52 UTC

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).

Carter

matt600_1 — 2025-10-17 16:18:59 UTC

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

BEAU

watson257 — 2025-10-17 16:19:08 UTC

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)

Kadyn

2025-10-17 16:19:17 UTC

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.)

Mason Billie Jo’s Injury

2025-10-17 16:19:23 UTC

I want to play it.

The big dusty piano.

But I can’t, my hand.

Isidro

alvare159 — 2025-10-17 16:19:25 UTC

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

Shawn

2025-10-17 16:19:34 UTC

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)

Ella S Billie Jo’s injury

2025-10-17 16:19:38 UTC

Hands hurt to play now

What’s out of the dust more now

Hands are broken now

Olivia M

moffit572 — 2025-10-17 16:19:52 UTC

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

Islei (Dust storms)

2025-10-17 16:19:55 UTC

Dust storms ruined lives

People could have not escaped

People got injured

Killian

martin433_2 — 2025-10-17 16:20:05 UTC

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)

BENSON BOONE

merith799 — 2025-10-17 16:20:11 UTC

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)

Eleanor

2025-10-17 16:20:13 UTC

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

Andrew oct 18 Ma’s Death haiku

shevli123 — 2025-10-17 16:20:32 UTC

Ma died with Franklin

Billie is sad about Ma

Ma will rest in peace

Ryan

hamill442 — 2025-10-17 16:20:35 UTC

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

Shawn (Ma’s death)

2025-10-17 16:20:38 UTC

Billie is livid

Pa is pretending she’s fake

She quits piano

Joe

blunk883 — 2025-10-17 16:20:38 UTC

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

Ella o positive

oconno456 — 2025-10-17 16:20:47 UTC

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

Cayden W

workma184 — 2025-10-17 16:20:48 UTC

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

Madeline

mccann996 — 2025-10-17 16:20:56 UTC

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.

Kelsey

dana993 — 2025-10-17 16:20:58 UTC

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

Arlo

beltz408 — 2025-10-17 16:21:04 UTC

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.

Juan

2025-10-17 16:21:08 UTC

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

Adaylia

2025-10-17 16:21:08 UTC

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).

LANDON

mclaug036 — 2025-10-17 16:21:20 UTC

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).

BEAU Dust storms

watson257 — 2025-10-17 16:21:27 UTC

Sunshine and rainbows :)

ENTER THE MASSIVE DUST STORM

*final boss music*

Josiah- Haiku of Franklin’s Death

bailey357 — 2025-10-17 16:21:40 UTC

Franklin, oh Franklin

Where art thou oh Franklin now

Now dead to the end

Anabelle

2025-10-17 16:22:03 UTC

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

Lily (Hired work)

rischl130 — 2025-10-17 16:22:07 UTC

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).

Bremer positive effect about the piano

2025-10-17 16:22:09 UTC

” 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).

Tim

schweg884 — 2025-10-17 16:22:20 UTC

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).

Isidro

alvare159 — 2025-10-17 16:22:23 UTC

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

Penelope

2025-10-17 16:22:26 UTC

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)

Killian - Dust storm

martin433_2 — 2025-10-17 16:22:33 UTC

Sleeping peacefully

Sand is in my nose and mouth

People scream and run

BRIDGET

2025-10-17 16:22:34 UTC

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)

Elsie

2025-10-17 16:22:49 UTC

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).

Reagan B

baker770 — 2025-10-17 16:22:52 UTC

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).

Josiah-Haiku of Franklin’s Death

bailey357 — 2025-10-17 16:23:04 UTC

Franklin oh Franklin

Meet your sister Billie Jo

Oh snap, you are dead!

Olivia Poast

poast234 — 2025-10-17 16:23:13 UTC

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).

Reagan L.

2025-10-17 16:23:15 UTC

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).

CAPTAIN ROBERT ZUERLEIN

zuerle222 — 2025-10-17 16:23:16 UTC

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)

Benson Allen Boone Ma’s death

merith799 — 2025-10-17 16:23:25 UTC

Ma’s death kills

The dust storms killed all crops

Ma couldn’t Stop dust

Lucy

2025-10-17 16:23:30 UTC

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).

Ella S

2025-10-17 16:24:04 UTC

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

Alyssa

2025-10-17 16:24:05 UTC

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).

Gavin

2025-10-17 16:24:16 UTC

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).

Tim

schweg884 — 2025-10-17 16:24:24 UTC

Ma’s death

Laying in her bed,

Ma’s in lots and lots of pain,

She died, giving birth.

Olivia m

moffit572 — 2025-10-17 16:24:30 UTC

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).

Lily (Dust Storms)

rischl130 — 2025-10-17 16:24:34 UTC

People can’t escape

Feels like a scary monster

Dust comes down your nose

Ryan

hamill442 — 2025-10-17 16:24:35 UTC

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).

Dust storms (Lucy)

2025-10-17 16:24:56 UTC

Dust storms left and right

No more crops no more water

More hard work for Billie.

Ella O Negative

oconno456 — 2025-10-17 16:25:07 UTC

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

CAPTAIN ROBERT ZUERLEIN

zuerle222 — 2025-10-17 16:25:09 UTC

Ma’s death |

——————-|

Humongous bad fire

Died because of kerosene

Oh, no so dang sad

Andrew Oct 18 bad moments

shevli123 — 2025-10-17 16:25:20 UTC

“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.

Positive moments Owen

2025-10-17 16:25:22 UTC

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).

Carter

matt600_1 — 2025-10-17 16:25:26 UTC

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.

Kora

kopper355 — 2025-10-17 16:25:38 UTC

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

Juan

2025-10-17 16:25:45 UTC

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

Landon

sirova062 — 2025-10-17 16:26:12 UTC

“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).

Joe

blunk883 — 2025-10-17 16:26:16 UTC

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

Kadyn

2025-10-17 16:26:16 UTC

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

Madeline

mccann996 — 2025-10-17 16:26:21 UTC

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).

Reagan B. - Franklin’s Death

baker770 — 2025-10-17 16:26:23 UTC

Who was a nice joy

One who lived for an hour

That was my brother

Reagan L.

2025-10-17 16:26:38 UTC

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).

Olivia Poast Haiku, Dust Storm’s revised

poast234 — 2025-10-17 16:26:53 UTC

All the crops are gone

The storm blacked out the sky

Big dusty storm gone

Benson Boone

merith799 — 2025-10-17 16:26:54 UTC

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

(98).

Adaylia

2025-10-17 16:27:12 UTC

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).

Elsie

2025-10-17 16:27:14 UTC

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

Sophie

jackma149 — 2025-10-17 16:28:01 UTC

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).

Landon

sirova062 — 2025-10-17 16:28:38 UTC

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

Kora

kopper355 — 2025-10-17 16:29:09 UTC

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.

Penelope

2025-10-17 16:29:17 UTC

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

Reagan L. Hardships Haiku Billie Jo’s injury

2025-10-17 16:29:20 UTC

Billie Jo’s view of the future

She once viewed piano as

Her place in the world

Kinley

2025-10-17 16:29:41 UTC

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)

BEAU POSITIVE

watson257 — 2025-10-17 16:29:43 UTC

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

Negative feelings (Owen)

2025-10-17 16:30:02 UTC

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

Kadyn

2025-10-17 16:31:25 UTC

DUST STORMS

It ruins her dreams

People feel trapped by the dust

It causes them despair

BRIDGET POSITIVE PIANO

2025-10-17 16:31:59 UTC

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).

Billie Joes injury (Owen)

2025-10-17 16:32:13 UTC

Grabbed pan and burnt hand

Skin came off. Doctor cut it.

No piano anymore now.

Kinley Franklin’s death

2025-10-17 16:33:00 UTC

Ma’s enormous belly

A fragile baby born

Rest in peace Franklin

Josiah

bailey357 — 2025-10-17 16:33:15 UTC

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).

Sophie Franklin’s death

jackma149 — 2025-10-17 16:33:33 UTC

Family’s hope gone

Bittersweet when meet babies

Pa is a stranger

Penelope Ma’s death

2025-10-17 16:34:19 UTC

Ma’s death hurt Billie Jo

Billie Jo feels sad about ma’s death

piece from the world

Hadley

nelsen549 — 2025-10-17 16:45:44 UTC

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.