Marlaya

= Dancing Naked =



The piano is important because Kia would go to the nursing home and play the piano for them.When Kia was pregnant she played with more passion and A women named Grace noticed. from that day on Grace has played a very important part in Kia's life and Kia named her baby's middle after Grace. Also Grace was the one whon taught her about "Dancing Naked" Kia and Grace have developed a strong friendship or bond throughout this experience. Also in the book they called grace Graceful Grace. Kia for some odd reason thought it was an inapropriate name for her and I didn't think Kia like race all that well but no Kia is practically Grace's Grandchild.



This car represents a quote in the book that I loved . " A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn." This quote was in the reverends office on a poster that showed a blue car, with a blurred image racing towards a hairpin turn on a deserted road. CHANGE was written at the very top and the quote was written at the bottom. So that it why I have the picture. To help you have an idea on what it looks like. Anyways, Kia thought the quote was very good and had a meaning to her. The road is life to her. The bend was for Kia to get pregnant. Kia is wondering if she made the right turn or not. And will having this baby change the direction of her life or will it just be a detour? All of these questions came to Kia's mind just by this poster in the Reverends office.



" I wanted you to know how special you are to me Kia. I hope you don't mind but I've always thought of you as my grandchild" This is the quote Grace had said to Kia. This is significant because it shows that Grace really cares about Kia. This took place in the hospital before the delivery. The thing that kept Grace's strength up was Kia's baby. Grace thought of Kia's baby as her own great-grandchild as well. And Grace didn't have much time to live because she had cancer. So that is why she kept having strength to live, just so she could see her great-grandchild. After the delivery there is this great big moon outside. Kia looks outside and it reminds her of Grace. The moon represents Grace.I put the moon because when kia looked outside and saw the moon she immediatly thought of Grace and went up to her hospital room. When she got up there they began talking and Kia showed Grace her baby. The moon also represents dancing and their last song together before Grace died. This was the night Grace taught her about dancing naked.

This book is just too contrived and cliched, the dialogue and the prose are stilted and unnatural. Try Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker, which is a much better, more in-depth book about a teenage pregnancy. A fourth-grader could have written this.