His last.” Descriptions of the weather and the heat in lines 7-10 aids in giving readers a sense of the heat that the narrator was going through as a young child. “After Eddy’s accident, he gave me a cherry bomb. Examples of these are in lines 49 when she says,“My box of private things” and in lines 61-62.

Instead, she makes blunt, short statements. Rather, Clair barely writes about the importance of both the box and her childhood in detail. The contents of the box and her childhood are mostly hidden from the reader’s knowledge.

To her, a simple cigar box symbolizes her childhood.

She continues this step-by-step instructable to how to go to her private box by explaining that,“If you closed your eyes, held your hands up over your head, placed one foot in front of the other, walked until the tips of your fingers touched the smooth cool of slanted plaster all the way down to where you had to slue your feet and walk squatlegged, fell to your knees and felt around on the floor” To conclude to these instructions, she says that, “then you would hit the strong-smelling cigar box.” where you would be able to find her “box of private things”.Ĭonsidering she was illustrating the way to her box in vast amounts of detail, it is obvious that the box was so sentimental to the author that its hiding spot is forever etched in her memory. From lines 34-41, the author says that “If you parted the heavy coats between the raggedy mouton that once belonged to my father’s mother, who, my father said, was his Heart when she died, and the putrid-colored jacket my father wore when he got shipped out to the dot in the Pacific Ocean where, he said, the women wore one piece of cloth and looked as fine as wine in the summertime, you would find yourself right in the middle of our cave-dark closet.” She explains the exact two coats that you have to part in the closet in order for you to follow the next steps in finding this secret box of hers.

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