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Have you ever had a bad day? Well for Lonnie Motions a bad day seems a bit more often for him. Locomotion is a book of poems written by Jacqueline Woodson. This book is mainly about the hardship and prosperity that the main character Lonnie Collins Motions also known as Locomotion. Also battling the loss of his parents that were killed in a house fire. This novel's main subject matter is that not everything stays the same and some things can change and you have to accept it.

At the beginning of the novel, Lonnie was a very extroverted child and she started to get hushed by Miss. Edna slowly becomes quieter as it states. “Wouldn’t always be telling me to be quiet” In this quote, it states that Miss. Edna always tells Lonnie to be quiet since

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