Fear
“Later, much later,” they heard “something.” “The snowball bushes” outside the window “swayed gently.” They didn’t dare to breath for listening. Joey heard footsteps on the back porch “creeping, then more confident”. “A hand closed over the knob” on the screen door to the kitchen, and found it “latched.” They heard “a little sawing, singing sound” as a “file began to slice through screen wire.” “The darkness” made Joey see “pinwheels like sparkles.” The intruders managed to get into the house. This imagery evokes a feeling of nervousness. Joes doesn’t know what to expect and is a little bit afraid of the boys who are trying to break in.
The feeling
Joey was crazy about planes. He was “up in the front seat of the plane,” bucking himself with “trembling hands.” He even got “a pair of googles” that were “from the Great War.” And he felt that the moment they “left the ground,” and the fair “fell away below” them, and ahead of them was nothing “but the towering white clouds.” And beyond them “sky, endless sky.” He didn’t know there was “that much sky.” They were flying “higher than birds, over the patchwork fields.” This imagery evokes a feeling of amazement.
Homemade
Grandma didn’t like wasting money on useless things. Only a fool would spend “seven cents” on a little piece of soap! Mrs. Dowdel could make her own. She soon had her grandchildren “busy as bird dogs.” She sent Mary Alice to the pump “for pail after pail of water,” and she sent Joey to the house “for coal scuttles full of wood ash from the kitchen stove.” After supper Grandma and Joey worked through “what she called the cool of evening.” She put “an old pot on a tripod” and they dumped “the lye into it, with just the right amount of water.” Now she added what looked to Joey like “garbage.” There were “ham skins, bacon rings, and things too mysterious to mention.” This imagery evokes a feeling of confusion.
