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The Personification Of The Walls Family In The Yellow Wall

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Due to her close relationship and proximity to nature, Walls provides many examples of personification in her writing. The family encounters the Joshua tree at one point. Beaten to the ground by the desert wind, the tree still holds itself up by the roots. Walls herself finds the tree to be freakish and ugly, but her mother finds beauty in it. This tree represents the Walls family in a sort of ways. Though her family may seem dysfunctional on the outside, they still have a strong foundation of love

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