Setting and Dialect in The People Could Fly
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Visualizing a Scene
Visualize the scene created in the passage. Use your
own words to describe in detail what you see, hear,
and smell.
Bruh Rabbit smells the wind. He find out which way it
drivin. He knock the coal from he pipe. Red-hot coal fall
in the broom grass. Bruh Rabbit blow on the coal and it
catch fire. Fire set pen the field, the broom grass all
around on fire. And Bruh Rabbit find heself a stump
to set pontop and he set up there and he watch and wait.
The fire comin strong all around and around, for true.
-"Bruh Alligator and Bruh Deer,"
Virginia Hamilton

Visualize the scene created in the passage. Use your own words to describe what you see, hear, and smell.