Box 9

My personal assumptions of the text was more of a down south "hillbilly" community rather than picturing it as an island community. Although there are islands down south and I am sure that "hicks" live on them, I just pictured a clip from an older time also. I feel that they way they lived in their community was that of an old time strict conservative era. There was one person who made an impact on the entire community who made it what it is today and I think they followed how that person would have wanted them to act.
Another movie I would have to say that reminds me of this story is "O Brother Where Art Thou?". I think this mostly because of the language of a southern person. Also for some reason even though this story relates to 1999 I kept imagining it to be in an older era. The reason I thought it was an older era was probably the mentioning of things that had happened before the narrator's time. Such as farming, the Depression, how there island came to be and why it originated and so on.
My previous reading experiences made me think of this story as an uneducated farm land, where not much excitement happens. I cannot think of many stories that I have read that relate me almost exactly as this one, but the language and images of the society seem very relevant to that I have read before. I would describe her style as using a lot of slang and making the people in the story actually really being like in real life.
There were many problems for me in understanding the text. At first it started off about Sapphira Wade and then I feel that it immediately jumped to the Realtors wanting to buy the land to make money. I had to go back and see how they were mentioning Mama Day and how it actually related to the beginning of the story. Also another hard part for me was the end when it was talking about Reema's boy doing all these things like chewing on mints and sticking things inside his shoes.
I found myself entertained in the text when it was talking about Sapphira Wade boring the seven children and how those seven children ended up. I really did not find too much of this story interesting. As I said before I was confused in a couple spots because of transitioning and some wording.
I only read the story once, but I feel I understand the storyline. It is about the history of an island town where a boy comes to do fieldwork and find out about the culture. The narrator is describing many aspects, but I took it in that way.
I think Mama Day was most interesting to me because she seems just like the old strict mothers you see in the movies. Very stern and tough.
My imagination came into play when they were describing the people who had left the island and had been successful. I think the reason why is because I am leaving my hometown, which I had felt bound to for awhile. I think that leaving for college was kind of like relating to those people in the story.