Sadie's mother insists on Sadie to go outside and play. She had wished to go out because it was beautiful; however she expressed her life as pushing herself through a hole in the wall and breaking free from the house, her mother and her life. Sadie approached her mom, quietly sort of like a culprit and stood, silently. Her mother asked her repeating what she was doing in a higher tone. Sadie then felt frightened and asked what is wrong with her foot. She asked in great thought and anger. She was old enough now, that she comprehended the tissue with her foot. Her mother exhaled on finishing the kitchen work and ignored Sadie. Furthermore, she remembered that she left a pair of sandals under a green tree for her to follow Justy. She wished that someone would mention her foot or further mutilation of it perhaps. . She rolled her socks down, despite knowing her legs would sickly white in her class. Then Sadie would dream or jog her memory of her legs running, green grass, beneath an apple tree and how she left her sandal to catch up to Justy.
Now grown up, working for a living, she begins to think about the stockings she wanted to have. Sadie would cut stocking ads from magazines and attach them to the mirror. She treated her socks with a certain defense. Her first pay envelope she received, she used it to purchase a new pair of stockings. Sadie left for the store to buy stockings however there were no silk stockings since the war began. Justy Williams was real. He wasn't a dream figure. She thought of a competition to touch the sky, therefore she took her shoes off to climb the tree, from her dream. She then asked about Justy to her parents but they laughed and denied the idea of a boy named Justy. Later on, she left for the mall when she could afford new shoes. She then noticed a sales clerk. He reminded her of Justy. He assisted her in selecting shoes as he slipped one onto her good foot. However she did not find shoes that fit her "wrong" foot and decided not to buy the shoes. Lastly as she felt the swirling blue currents of air rushed by she thanked him, for the relief of knowledge that Justy is real.
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Was Justy real in the end or was he imaginary?
ReplyDeleteHe was real in the end. Sadie's parents just lied to her about him, trying to convince her that he was imaginary ans they wanted her to believe that because in her childhood an incident occurred with Justy in which she injured her foot forever (handicapped). (The main reason, for her parents was to keep her away from making friends). Sadie was happy at the end because the dreams that Sadie was having were true.
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ReplyDeleteWhere there any symbols describing this girl in the story. What methods of characterization did the author use in describing this girl. Did the girl had the chance to see Justy at the end of the story or the story just ended with her not seeing him. Was the guy who was the sale's clerk or not.
ReplyDelete*The symbols that had a relationship with Sadie was stockings. They would symbolize poverty and remind her of her handicapped leg. Poverty because silk socks were too expensive because during the war everything was limited to everyone. (supplies were needed over seas). And it would display her handicapped leg because it would always be difficult for her to put on her stocking on her "bad" foot. Therefore she gave great importance towards them.
ReplyDelete* the method of characterization used by the author was direct. Because she would just state her image for example " i hated my long white sickly legs...my brunette hair was so fried and i desired silk hair just as every other girl in class".
*She did meet Justy, he was the sale's clerk. This is were she felt satisfaction that her dreams were true.