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Billie Jo's Mental Grieving
Billie Jo's Physical Grieving
Father's Mental
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Father's Physical Grieving
Grieving Together
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What did Billie Jo dream about on page 193?
Her mother still being with her and playing the piano. "Piano, my silent mother, I can touch you, you are cool and smooth and willing to stay with me stay with me talk to me. Uncomplaining you accept the cover to your keys and still you make room for all that I place there. We close our eyes together and together find that stillness like a pond a pond when the wind is quiet and the surface glazes glazing unblinking at the blue sky. I play songs that have only the pattern of myself in them and you hum along supporting me. You are the companion to myself. The mirror with my mother's eyes."
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What did Billie Jo not make on Christmas that she never learned to make?
Ma's cranberry sauce "My father loved Ma's special cranberry sauce. But she never showed me how to make it."
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When doing what does her father not speak?
When digging the hole. " My father digs and says nothing, he just keeps digging."
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What picture does Billie Jo's father take down after Louise starts coming to dinners more often?
He takes down his and Billie Jo's mother's wedding picture. "Where Ma and Daddy's wedding picture once stood, though Daddy has taken that down."
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In what season do Billie Jo and her father start getting along?
Autumn "We are getting closer but I think he is still blaming me. Autumn 1935.
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What is one thing Billie Jo always thinks about near the end of the book?
Her Ma and brother Franklin still being with her.
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Who did Billie Jo run after when they rode away with the baby?
The Lindberghs "They left a couple weeks after the baby came, all of them crammed in that rusty old truck. I ran half a mile in there dust to catch them."
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Why is her father worried about taking things from the government?
He is always thinking about what Ma said about what the government is doing. " My father was worried about paying back because of what Ma said."
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How deep is the pond Pa is digging?
Six feet deep. "Forty feet by sixty feet, six feet deep."
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Why do they start to get along?
They realize that they only have each other and that is how it will be. "We are starting to forgive each other, but we aren't there yet."
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When was Billie Jo thinking about her Ma telling her " I knew you could?"
After her test when she earned a good grade. "I wish I could hear say,"I knew you could" ,it would be enough.
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What does Billie Jo do with her Ma's piano?
Nothing, she does not play it. "I am not ready yet not yet."
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Why does Pa blame Billie Jo for the accident?
He doesn't want to admit that it was partially his fault. "I blamed him and he blamed me."
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What does he do silenty everyday for Ma and Franklin who have passed?
He digs the pond. "He just keeps digging that hole."
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What do they both do to honor Ma's ways?
They do all the things Ma wanted them to do.
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What was the one thing Billie Jo was afraid of after the accident?
Fire. "Fire has always been my worst fear after the accident."
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What was the one thing Billie Jo did that her Ma always wanted her to do?
She went through the boxes of her childhood things. " I thought once to go through those boxes with Ma, but now Daddy is sitting on the edge of my bed."
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Who enforces Pa to do most of the house work for Billie Jo?
Louise enforces Pa to do most of the house work. "Louise has a way of making my father do things."
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What does Pa do so that he doesn't lose Billie Jo in the big dust storm?
He goes after her.
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Who sent the letter to Billie Jo and her father about staying with them?
Billie Jo's aunt,Ellis. "A letter written to me from my Aunt Ellis, inviting me to come live with her in Lubbock."
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What was the one thing she always misses at Christmas dinner?
Her Ma's cranberry sauce. "I miss Ma's special cranberry sauce and I never learned how to make it."
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What does Billie Jo do to help support the farm and earn money?
She enters in a competition at the Palace Theatre. "Thursday night the Palace Theatre is having a contest."
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What do you think Pa is thinking at night, sleeping in bed alone?
Inference
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What do you think Pa does to get the "anger" off his back?
Inference
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What do Billie Jo and Pa finally do at the end of the book with who?
They finally make up and they have Louise in their life now. "We are finally back together and life is so much better."