The way she describes the quilt, “Six Van Dyke brown squares, two white ones, and one square the yellow-brown of Mama’s cheeks,” helps readers to visualize the quilt, while also visualizing what the speaker’s mother’s complexion may have looked like. Waniek also makes use of imagery to help readers visualize the speaker’s family, through Meema’s dreams. Upon reading about Meema’s dreams, with lines such as “When their father came home from his store they cranked up the pianola and all the beautiful sisters giggled and danced.” One can actually see all that had happened on such a day in Meema’s
The way she describes the quilt, “Six Van Dyke brown squares, two white ones, and one square the yellow-brown of Mama’s cheeks,” helps readers to visualize the quilt, while also visualizing what the speaker’s mother’s complexion may have looked like. Waniek also makes use of imagery to help readers visualize the speaker’s family, through Meema’s dreams. Upon reading about Meema’s dreams, with lines such as “When their father came home from his store they cranked up the pianola and all the beautiful sisters giggled and danced.” One can actually see all that had happened on such a day in Meema’s