Coming Home

These lines show how much Billie Jo has learned.

"Getting away, it wasn't any better. Just different. And lonely. Lonelier than the wind. Emptier than the sky. More silent than the dust, piled in drifts between me and my father." Summer 1935 Page 204

Billie Jo learned that even though she wanted to escape the dust, she didn't want to leave her father. Even though they didn't talk much, being with her father and not talking was better than being all alone and not having a place to call home. Billie Jo realized that she needed to be with her father because he was really all that she had left in the world. Even though she had some relatives, they were scattered throughout the country. None of them were there for Billie Jo. None of them really even knew Billie Jo. Running away showed Billie Jo how much she needed her father.