Page 9 - Lesson Notes 1

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4 stanza:

(I am an orphan, roaming the street.

I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.

The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)

In this stanza, we once again see Amanda’s reaction to her

mother’s harsh words. Amanda withdraws into another

imaginary world. She imagines that she is an orphan and

that she is walking aimlessly on the street. She has no

shoes on her feet at all, and instead, she is getting them

even dirtier by making designs on the dusty ground with

them. However, she makes no sound while making these

dusty designs. She cherishes the silence as well as the

freedom to do as she likes in that world of her

imagination.