Snapping Beans By Lisa Parker Summary

Homesickness is the experience of longing for one’s home during a period of absence from it. In “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker the idea of homesickness is a described as a young girl and her grandmother snap beans together after she returns from college. Although the snapping of the beans is a very important aspect of the poem the symbolization of a “hickory leaf” is far more important than this simple yet important and homely task. The summer green hickory leaf represents the girl breaking away from the morals and ways of life her grandmother has set for her, although she is breaking away, from the old school point of view her grandmother has, she still is able to stay true to the person she is.

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