Billie Jo's New Growth

Through dust, Billy Joe experienced a new growth in her life. This new growth will become evident when you understand the knowledge she has learned and its changes. Her relationship with her father gets better, learn to accept new people, learn what they offer, and learn to be happy. At the beginning of the novel, Billy Joe and her father were far apart. After the accident, their relationship worsened further as the horses did not contact them. "I do not know my father anymore," Billy Joe said.

Billy Joe and her father began to separate from each other. After her death, Billy Joe no longer called her father "dad". Billy Joe was so scared that I could not play the piano. It was one of the few fun in her life. Over time she began to notice the spots of her father's face just like a spot when her grandfather suffered from skin cancer. After trying to recover her old lifestyle, Billy Joe desperately wanted to get rid of the dust, so she woke up and just started eating biscuits overnight.

Billy Joe and her parents faced these difficult times, and despite the dust without end, Billy Joe was very happy. Most importantly, Billy Joe likes to play the piano, and she has earned money. Ma and Pa are also very happy - Ma will give birth in the near future, and finally Billie Jo will have brothers or sisters. Then a terrible accident changed everything. The horse mistakenly placed a bucket with kerosene next to the stove, drank water and started cooking. A flame came out. After the mother had gone out, Billy Joe threw the burning kerosene out of the door. And I learned that Mrs. Mrs. Lady was standing on the path of hot liquid. Billie Jo desperately rescued Ma and hit the flame with his own hand. Horses and babies are dead Billy Joe 's town is rumored to be an accident Pal is deeply depressed Billy Joe' s hand badly burned, so she can not play the piano.

Billie Jo 's school music manager Arley Wanderdale was impressed with her talent and invited Billie Jo and his band The Black Mesa to play at the Palace Theater. The band is led by singer Maddog Craddock. Ma reluctantly allowed her and Billie Jo soon succeeded. As the family urgently needs money, Billie Jo persuaded Ma to let her go to a nearby town to play the game in the summer. But in July, the tragedy collapsed the Kelby family. The horse mistakenly replaced the kerosene barrel with water and fired at their house. Ma ran to his father, Billie Jo immediately threw kerosene out of the house. Sadly, kerosene flying into the horse cloud. Billy Joe erased the flame with both hands and burned it badly. The horse also died badly burned in less than a month, a baby was born. Billy Joe's brother, Franklin, died a few days later and was buried with his mother.