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Roselily By Alice Walker Summary
“Roselily” is a story written by Alice Walker. Set in stone on a front porch near highway sixth one in Mississippi. Her story is about a woman determine and thoughtful. Willing to do any and everything for her four children. She was lost in her thoughts threw out the whole wedding. That every word spoken brought her deeper in thought.
Roselily was always lost in her thoughts. She thought about her children, and how she could stop working. She thought about her soon to be husband. Did he love her or was he going to accept her and her children. She also thought about his religion. For example: does she have to change her religion?, does she have to wear a headscarf?, or bare more children? She thought about her parents and how her mom is dead
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