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Stanza 1
The grandchild looks in the photograph and she saw that her
grandmother looks tall though she is supposed to be small.
She saw her grandmother who is still youthful and healthy and
has an upright back. In the photograph, her grandmother is
wearing a white embroidered shirt with a pleated skirt and flat
shoes. It shows that her grandmother is an over age lady.
The grandmother is really kind and loving person.
The line ‘ Her big hand holds mine, white hand in black hand’
means that the writer and her grandmother come from different
races. Which means that the grandmother is an American and
the grandchild is an African- American.
The persona’s grandmother was a very brave person because she
was not afraid of death
Stanza 2
The grandchild realized something. All that she can see is that her
grandmother began aging and develops a hunched back. She had
become forgetful, senile, and sign of dementia. The
grandmother passed away. The grandmother went somewhere
grandmothers go and it is unimaginable.
Stanza 3
Although the grandmother has passed away, but the grandchild
can still feel the presence of her grandmother. She can feel that
her grandmother is living in her heart. Smiling widely in the
picture when she was three years old. It treasures her because it
was an unforgettable memory of the way her grandmother
smiles before she became old and senile.