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Life Changing Journeys: "The Sky is Gray", "Blue Winds
Dancing" and "The Hammon and the Beans"

In the three short stories that we have read, the main
characters take life-changing journeys. As we continue
to read about these stories we find James in The Sky is
Gray, the Native American from Blue Winds Dancing and
Chonita in the Hammon and the Beans have traveled three
separate roads, allowing us to view their journeys in
three different ways. James in "The Sky is Gray" shows a
black male growing up in a home without a father figure
present learns the life lesson of poverty yet proud. The
Native American in "Blue Winds Dancing" deals with
belonging to the Native American world and the "white
man's world" while truly identifying himself. Chonita in
the "Hammon and the Beans" deals with poverty and other
aspects of her life.

James in "The Sky is Gray" deals with growing up as a
black male in the South. James takes a trip to town,
along with his mother, to......

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