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In this found poem it would be based on how the Grandmother tried convincing her son to go to Tenesse instead Florida. " Changing Bailey's mind" THE GRANDMOTHER didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. "Now look here, Bailey," she said, "see here, read this," "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. "The children have been to Florida before," the old lady said. "You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad. They never have been to east Tennessee." The second found poem would be based on how the family reacted when the Grandmother tried changing their mind and about the Misfit. " Reaction" Bailey didn't look up from his reading so she wheeled around then and faced the children's mother. The children's mother didn't seem to hear her but the eight-year-old boy, John Wesley, a stocky child with glasses, said, "If you don't want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay at home?" "She wouldn't stay at home to be queen for a day," June Star said without raising her yellow head. "Yes and what would you do if this fellow, The Misfit, caught you?" the grandmother asked. "I'd smack his face," John Wesley said. "Tennessee is just a hillbilly dumping ground," The third found poetry would be how the Grandmother tried to make the Misfit feel good about himself and to make him not harm them. " Praising & Praying" "You wouldn't shoot a lady, would you?" the grandmother said and removed a clean handkerchief from her cuff and began to slap at her eyes with it. "I know you're a good man. You don't look a bit like you have com- mon blood. I know you must come from nice people!" "I would hate to have to," he said. "you shouldn't call yourself The Misfit because I know you're a good man at heart. I can just look at you and tell " The grandmother noticed how thin his shoulder blades were just behind-his hat because she was standing up looking down on him. "Do you ever pray?" she asked."If you would pray," the old lady said, "Jesus would help you."
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Erica O'Brien
10/19/2017 07:23:14 am
I really like how you made the first two poems the grandmother trying to change their minds and their reactions to her trying to do so! Great job.
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Inayah C
10/26/2017 07:07:13 am
I really enjoyed your poems. The themes you picked were interesting.
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