See You At Harry's Out Analysis

See You at Harry’s conclusion
I thought quite a bit about Knowles’ usage of “impossible” in See You at Harry’s, and found two different conclusions to ponder. Frist, when I considered this word from an adult’s perspective defining is as something that is unable to happen, I did not find the usage as convincing and felt that it took away from my already questionable believability of Fern. Even understanding that the word was not being used in the literal sense, I felt that the use of its synonyms might have projected better to it young audience. As an example, when the minister consoled Fern, perhaps he could have offered, “what [a hopelessly] difficult time this is” (210). As I switched my thoughts from reading this book from an adult’s perspective to that of an adolescent, I
The amount of silence and space on each page offers multiple scenarios for its readers. I imagined the space as an indicator of what must have been vast amounts of time Billie Jo spent in silence due to dust storm enforced confinement, the silence of unfertile crops (Hesse 16), or her father emotionally disappearing (Hesse 76), drawing the reader into the scene. More notably, the breaks the novel created at the end of each poem allows the reader to have time to evaluate the words just read, and, by associating their own experience, attach personal meaning to the content. This series of poems felt more like Billy Jo’s diary than a narration of events. I felt the structure allowed the reader to project themselves into the story, gain an empathetic connection with Billy Jo, make predictions, and evaluate the outcomes. Sometimes we really just need to plant the seed for children and allow them space to consider their own actions and reactions, which I believe was the intention and achievement presented by Hesse in her novel Out of the