"Before the End of Summer"

"She was wearing a beautiful blue flower dress, a big brim, a red rose on the hat, a black ribbon hanging from the brim."

Bennie is 10 years old and is playing in the spring. He also does the housework. He heard a doctor and his grandmother talk about her condition.

Grandma is sick. Her doctor talked to her about her condition. She took the medicine, let her fall asleep, and once told her she would not wake up. She cooks and watches Benny

Benny 's mother made a living by making a living. She knows what her mother will throw, but she does not know what Benny knows.

At the beginning of the story, the doctor said that Benny's grandmother could survive only until the end of summer, but Benny should not listen to her grandmother to say that he can only survive to the end of the summer.

He is involved in death. His grandmother and grandmother 's friend died. After a while, he realized that death is about the same as his birth.

Grandmother planned the fact that Benny ran to her friend's house when she died, but her friend died in front of her.

"... Because the cheekbones are high, the nose is long and straight, but the mouth is large, the eyes seem to be buried in her head, there are lots of wrinkles."

A 10 - year - old black boy who lives with Benny, his grandmother Hanna, inadvertently heard a conversation between the doctor and his grandmother. He asked the doctor to tell his grandmother that she would die before the end of the summer. Hannah did not tell anyone about it. During the summer, Benny knew that she was going to die, so she did everything she could to reduce trivial things on the farm. When Hannah comes, he gives her medicine to allow her to fall asleep.

That summer, before this all happens, I will be seven years old soon at the end of the summer when I was 6 years old. That summer was so wealthy that the land of my grandparents was eventually given to them in 3 ton potatoes and someone had to join them and help them. For huge families this huge production is a burden, not to mention eating too much, because they can not sell it. After the potatoes were collected and kept in our mountain house, the whole family needed to get back to work and life. Except my mother and me. We were sent there for two weeks and stayed at the house where she was born. We are sleeping on sheets, embroidered lining of her grandmother, and wild lungs.

I kissed that summer. At first, I kissed a girl. Another couple was a couple who came from school, then met when I was shopping in my neighbor's town, and a couple who traveled with that family. Before the end of the summer, I thought it was wonderful to kiss girls, and I wanted to kiss more widely. To kiss a boy is not what I thought before, but when you decide not to just kiss a girl you immediately notice that the rest is a boy. I thought about this over and over and most of the time in the end of the summer is considering the meaning of my desire to kiss a boy.