Don't Let the Sun (Intro,1,2)

This reading the events that Eva Watt describes are very graphic and moving. Her grandmother was obviously an important part of her young life. Her grandmother was a very smart women. Her grandmother was captured once by a man when she was a young girl but was able to escape back to main camp. Watt's grandmother cured many people, she knew all the plants and herbs to make medications. She taught Watt plants and herbs and lots of things to eat, to grow and teas and medicines. Everything was hard to find and nothing came free so when they were able to find those things, it was a good thing. She also talks about her grandpa and an incident when he almost drowned because he could not make it across the river. His two sons dove into the river and saved him. Her grandmother Rose seemed like such a significant figure in her life because in each story or each even she talks about Grandma Rose seems to be involved. In chapter one she talked about her family moving around a lot when she was young and times were tough. In chapter 2 her brother Paul died and Eugene her other brother ran off. When they moved to Miami her father worked in the mines and that's when the flu broke out and her mother was able to fix medicine that saved them.