Many teens morph and change from the ways in which they are raised in order to adapt to their new surroundings. In Lisa Parker’s poem “Snapping Beans” the main character has been raised in an old fashioned life style but decided to leave everything she knows to attend a university in the north. Parker’s character comes home for a weekend and sits on the porch snapping beans with her grandmother, finding it difficult to explain to her how school is going. Lisa Parker has used snapping beans to symbolize not only the changing and snapping away of her old way of life in order to fit in with her new environment but they also represent her old, retro way of life and could be used to remind her of just where exactly she comes from. The main character
