I thought it was really sad how the story started off. The woman was remembering when she was a child and she would go to her grandparents house. She talked about the walk there and how she was always scared because it was a walk through the white neighborhood. If I was in that situation, I would have felt very vulnerable and out of place. I probably would have described the situation in the same way that she did. I found it interesting that she talked about how she called it her "grandma's house". Whenever I am going to my grandparents house, I say I am going to my grandma's. I am not sure if it is for the same reason, "because the house belonged to women", or if it just because she is the one usually home.
I had a hard time understanding the rest of the story. I thought that the encounter in the neighborhood would be returned to later in the story but it was not. It was a good transition to the reading but I found it hard to understand what was going on after that. It basically described how the black woman lived when there was slavery and after. The black woman would leave her home to go take care of a white family's home. Her family would be worried about her the whole time she was gone. The black woman had different ways of looking at the world and her life.
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I thought the same thing about refering to it as her grandmother's house because I do the same thing. For me I think its because she does most of the work and cooks and cleans etc.
I'll have to agree with you on the part that when you go visit your grandparent's. For me, the place that they live in is actually my uncle's house, but I still call it my grandma's place. I think I call it that because she's the only older female figure around who does the traditional home chores. But the more i think about it, i begin to question if I say it out of respect or something else. what do you think? for yourself that is.
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