Patricia Polacco's The Keeping Quilt And Gramma Acosta

We got to love our family even though we are having problems. Like the authors Patricia Polacco and Teresa Paloma Acosta. Patricia Polacco made and short story called The Keeping Quilt and Teresa Paloma Acosta made My Mother Pieced Quilts.In the Keeping Quilt the main characters are Great-Gramma Anna, Great Grandpa Sasha, and Anna.In the poem My Mother Pieced Quilts is the mother. The two stories both say about how much they love and respect for the quilts in which the quilts means something very special about their heritage. The symbols in the two stories are the quilts and their meaning is about their family heritage as in “The Keeping Quilt” the family just started making their quilt that represents their family heritage and In “My Mother Pieced Quilts” the person is remembering and reminiscing about the quilt. …show more content…
In the paragraph 5 “We will make a quilt to help us always remember home.” Anna’s mother said. Since they home they want to make a quilt to remember their home and make it feel like they back at home so they make it out of things that makes them remember like in paragraph 6. “After her mother had sewn her new one, she took her old dress and babushka. Then from a basket of old clothes she took Uncle Vladimir’s shirt, Aunt Havalah’s nightdress, and an apron of Aunt Natasha’s.” So she grabs the clothes from her parents and grandparents and get other things like the apron and nightdress and puts it all in the quilt to remember in which it is showing that the clothes will be part of the heritage in the