She says that school has let out but instead of the excitement of the summer "the feeling of liberty sat uneasily with most of them". This shows that some of the children understand that they are not truly free until some event occurs. It's very subtle because she does not come out and say why the children are uneasy and not free to romp casually. ... Summers asks for help with the box there is a hesitation from the villagers, which shows their reluctance to touch what to them symbolizes unpleasantness. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She says that school has let out but instead of the excitement of the summer "the feeling of liberty sat uneasily with most of them". This shows that some of the children understand that they are not truly free until some event occurs. It's very subtle because she does not come out and say why the children are uneasy and not free to romp casually. ... Summers asks for help with the box there is a hesitation from the villagers, which shows their reluctance to touch what to them symbolizes unpleasantness. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Finally she manages to get herself free. ... It was not until the nurse asked if her grandson was dead that Phoenix spoke, she made up the excuse that "I sat and forgot why I had made my long trip" (Welty 287). ... Since Phoenix did not have the education to help heal her grandson, she used her cunning to acquire two nickels to buy a toy and make him feel better. ... She was not a woman of extreme diminished mental capacity, but she a woman who deserves respect and admiration for trying to help her grandson the best way she knows how. ...

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She continues to help the soldiers gather straw and take it into the loft where they sleep. The soldiers began to think that this was unusual; she later explained that this would keep them warm they helped her. The soldiers more or less helped dig their own graves without even knowing it. After dinner she sat by the fire to warm herself and the soldiers climbed up into the loft to go to sleep. ... The Revolutionary War had been fought so that they could win their freedom from tyranny, but women had yet to be free. ...

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• Grade Level: High School