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Analysis Of Snapping Beans By Lisa Parker

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“Snapping Beans” No matter how many times you snap a bean, it’s still a bean. The poem, “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker, is about a teenage girl who left her southern home to attend college. In this poem the snapping beans are a symbol of the young girl slowly turning away from her roots and gradually changing. The snapping beans are a reference to how the girl is changing her ways to diverge with her “friends” at school who have nose rings and write poems about alcoholism, sex, and Buddha. The grandma wasn’t accustom to all of these accessories and the new age knowledge. The girl went back to her home and had a problematic time explaining to her grandma how school was going and in the end replied, “School’s fine.” The grandma saw the

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