Essay Archive - Use of Colors
Use of Colors
Pauline saw the beauty of life through the colors of her childhood down
South. Her fondest memories were of purple berries, yellow lemonade, and "that
streak of green them june bugs made on the trees the night we left down home.
All them colors was in me"1. Pauline and Cholly left the colors of the South
when they moved North to Ohio to begin their life together. Through Cholly,
Pauline hoped to find those colors of beauty that she left "down home".
For a while she did find her colors, her beauty, in the eyes of Cholly.
He released in her all the colors of life which were sealed down in her soul.
Everything about their early mar....
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