On one hand, Cassie's memories and daydreams seem to represent all the warmth and color and happiness of a quilt. Those colorful fabric squares of the quilt that surround the page give the book a warm, cozy feeling, which is interesting to compare and contrast with the story itself. We can make a guess that quilts remind Cassie of her parents, and her family's heritage.
(Before Tar Beach was ever a book, it was a fine-art quilt.) More generally, quilts are a symbol of family and tradition.Īre quilts important to Cassie's family in particular? Hard to say, but the spread on Mommy's bed looks like a quilt to us. The quilted squares that border the pages represent an actual quilt-a work of art made by the author that lives in the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Faith Ringgold did a lot of sewing to bring this story to life-and we're not talking metaphorically.
0 kommentar(er)
