ar, the writer in a way compares the children's mother and the Grandmother, for the way they are dressed. "The children's mother still had on slacks...but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat..." by this the writer wants us to get inside of the old lady and lets us know that "in case of accident..." here the writer gives us another clue for an upcoming event that's going to happen later in the story. During the trip John Wesley suggests that they go through Georgia a kind of a shortcut, so that they don't have to go through Tennessee. At this point the grandmother starts talking about her times when children were respectful to their elders and had more respect for them. Then suddenly points out at a little kid standing in a doorway. And expresses her feeling that "If I could paint, I'd paint that picture," The writer then tells us about th
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