Someone Was Movin ' Into Mrs. Dirk 's Old House

Us lived dere havin’ fun till de chillun at school got to teasin’ me ’bout livin’ in de white folks’ back-yard.

of rotting body in her car. I would assume that it was her daughter. So someone with access to

The vehicle was also a silver SUV pulling the red truck bed as a trailer. The female suspect was wearing a gray dress and matched the dress Emma was wearing on the day Craig bought the stolen items on

In the driveway was a tow truck back-in and it had the two front tires of a champagne color Cadillac Escalade on the lift /hookup. The tie straps on the front two tires were cut. Inside the tow truck was two white males, Mr. Christopher Messer, (driver) and Mr. Shane Messer (passenger). Blocking the tow truck in the driveway was a black male juvenile later unidentified as Mr. Rashad Simeon, a elderly black female referred to as grandmother and

The internal part of the truck was different from the outside, there were items showing off some of Ms. Smith’s personality. For instance, in

“I wouldn’t know, I’ve never seen the leader before or even heard of him to be honest.”

Pulling into the parking lot at the cleaners, he saw the closed sign in the window, but Rosy had not turned off the lights in the store. Rushing to the front Andrew pounded on the door. Looking up from the pile of papers she was separating, Rosy recognized Andrew, since his family had been her customer for years. Unlocking the front door, she said, “I called the police and told them someone took Mrs. Barnes.”

“I’ll try to get in first,” he explained. “I’m on good terms with some of the residents here.” He knocked on the door a few times, and then began to call. “Dodi? Graverobber? Tessa? Anyone?”

As Granny looks back on her earlier years, when her children were young and she took care of everyone on her own, Porter’s use of imagery hints at Granny’s pride in being able to support her family without a husband. As stated in the passage, “It had been a hard pull, but not too much for her”, and she repeatedly wishes the old days back again. On top of the pride she feels for raising her children alone, the reader also begins to fathom Granny’s hatred of being useless, illustrated by her constant thought back to the days where she was a proper Renaissance woman, “Riding country roads in the winter when women had their babies”, and “sitting up nights with sick horses and sick negroes and sick children and hardly ever losing one”, as well as her

This information was confirmed in the Drivers and Vehicle Identification Database, (D.A.V.I.D.), and identified her as, Carly Scott. Scott advised she didn’t know what was going on and had nothing to do with Jared or the other two unidentified subjects. Scott advised the vehicle was her fathers and that he was not in town at the moment.

“But if you were a human,” she continued, “You wouldn’t know me or your father, or any of your friends.”

A white man named Karl Linder has been authorized by the white community to offer the Youngers a monetary incentive not to move in. Karl says, “Well, I don’t understand why you people are reacting this way. What do you think you are going to gain by moving into a neighborhood where you just aren’t wanted.” This demonstrates how difficult life was for the Younger family. They were poor and unwanted because of the color of their skin.

The grandmother’s bigotry is also on display as the family rides past a black youth standing near his modest home. Her reaction to seeing him is like walking past an adorable dog; “Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!” (12). When her granddaughter June Starr comments on the boy’s lack of clothing, the grandmother explains that “little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do” (12). As the grandmother emits racism through her comments, she is also inserting such notion into her grandchildren’s minds. Nor Bailey or his wife says anything, so it can be suggested that they are used to such comments and may hold the same views as well. The grandmother does not see a reason to be empathetic; the boy waves and she does return the gesture. Instead she romanticizes the boy’s plight as a missed opportunity, suggesting that “If [she] could paint, [she’d] paint that picture” (12).

An hour after the moving van parked in the driveway of 406 Clybourne street in Clybourne Park the younger family waved at the van when it slowly moved away and they went inside when the van was out of view. The family worked together to put away their belongings and they stood hand and hand and they took a breath of fresh air. Beneatha went first to her room to put away her stuff then Ruth and Walter went next and Travis left to go hunt for his new room. They all left until Mama was left there alone looking out the big window. Mama gingerly stepped to the window and put her plant down smiling in thought. When the door bell rung she jumped and went to the door. At the door was a white woman and when the door opened and saw mama she flinched and said “Hello, I’m your neighbor it’s nice to meet you.” She said “I’m Susan it’s nice to meet you.” She said this slowly, deliberately like she’s talking to a foreign person and Susan put out her hand and mama did not reach for it her face was just a blank stare. Then after a while mama stammered “h-hello I’m Lena Younger its very nice to meet you.” And she reached out and shook Susan’s hand and Susan quickly took it away. Then she said “Well I just came to say,” Susan took mama’s shirt and pulled her face so close to mama’s that their noses were touching. “stay out of our way, we will stay out of your way if you stay out of ours.” She shoved mama into their brand new house and slammed the door so hard that

“Well, if I had to take a guess I’d say this isn’t really your house.”