6/27/2023 0 Comments Amazing grace hoffmanGrace is told by two of her classmates that she can't be Peter Pan in the school play because she is a girl and because she is black. Her grandmother, Nana, believes that Grace can be whatever she wants to be. Grace's mother is very practical and hopes that Grace will become a doctor, a lawyer or a professional person given the opportunities she herself didn't have. She's a pirate with a peg leg and a parrot, an explorer, and a theater director of a production of 'Cinderella' in which she casts a boy in the title role. In her imagination, she becomes the characters: Anansi the Spider, Joan of Arc, Mowgli, Hiawatha. When Grace is in her playworld everything to her is real. She also makes up her own stories, acting out the most exciting parts. Youngblood, "Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own.
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