Summary Of The President's Ball

In “The President’s Ball” Billie Jo goes to a dance with her father at the Legion Hall. The poem has a lot of images and these images show the ball where everyone is having a good time not worrying about the dust and all the negative at the time. Everyone is in their nice clothes focused solely on the positive. “My father puts on his best overalls I wear my Sunday dress, the one with the white collar, and we walk to town, to the Legion Hall and join the dance,” show the happiness in her tone and the positivity. The tone of happiness increases when she talks about how exciting the dance is and then later how much money is raised gets everyone even happier. She uses personification when she says “our feet flying” to show how much energy there