Valeria, Post One

One setting that contributed to Lily’s life is the creek beneath a bridge where Rosaleen and Lily rested after running away. Lily describes it as a different world, where even unimaginable things might happen. This is a metaphor to Lily’s actual life: a new world has opened up for her, one where anything is possible. The moon is full that day, and after a fight with Rosaleen, Lilly dreams that the moon breaks and she has to run away. This relates to segregation which, like the moon, has always been there. Then, suddenly, that wall between the white and black people is broken and it makes Lily’s life change as well. And still, as Lily slides under the water wishing to be absorbed by it, she is thinking of that suitcase and the smell of cold cream, meaning that she could never really forget what she left behind. This is important to the story, showing that even the things that were left behind sometimes can’t be forgotten.