I am a stranger in a strange world.
Jake Blount considers himself “a stranger” in “a strange world”, for he is usually misunderstood and his opinion on this world and its rules differ from the opinions of the majority of people. He has read the books that “tell the pure honest truth” and gets madder and “madder”, for Jake can’t understand why others do not see that his world is unfair. All of these make him feel isolated and underestimated.
A person can’t pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.
Portia’s father, the first black doctor in the town, wanted her to be educated, ambitious, a true leader for other black people. Just like it often happens, Portia chose a different style of a life. She liked working as a maiden for the white family, loved her husband, her siblings and God. The only one thing that made her less happy was her father’s disapproval of her life. Once she told him, “a person can’t pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.” She might be illiterate, but she is definitely wise in her own way. She managed to comprehend something that her well-educated father can’t understand.
Next to a real piano I sure would rather have some place to myself than anything I know.
Mick was the black sheep of the family. She was the kind of a girl who didn’t like wearing dresses, spreading and listening to gossips, spending time with her peers. Although she often felt rather lonely, she knew that there were more important things, her dreams. One of them was “a real piano”, for music was her passion. Then she wanted to have “some place” to herself where she could write music and do whatever she wants.
