Chapters 17&18

"The lights hanging slack overhead, the soft ground underneath the canvas wall that faintly blew in and out, like cheeks puffed with air, made for the feeling of a county fair."(pg. 123)

This quotation is a description of the "church" that Marguerite attends with her family. Obviously, it is not your average church. Marguerite tells us that it is actually a collapsable tent that is used. Of course, there are no caucasian people that go to this church. The African-American community is extremely poor. They do not have enough money and can not afford a real church.

This is important to the story because is shows us the hard times that African-American's had to go through. It shows us how difficult it was for Marguerite to do simple things such as going to church. It also shows us exactly how poor these people were. The fact that they could not afford a place to perform their religion is horrible. It also shows us that the caucasian people would never help out the African-American people with anything.