In The Piano Lesson, there is the ghost of John Sutter – of the Sutter family who owned the Charles family in slavery times- whi
ch hovers over the piano and which does not want the piano to be disturbed. However, the use of the supernatural element was also a convention introduced by Wilson because he wanted to offer a resolution to an ongoing conflict. What was that conflict?
Berniece doesn´t want to play the piano, which represents their tragic past. She claims to be afraid of awakening the spirits of her ancestors.
But when Sutter’s ghost attacks her brother, she overcomes her fear and releases her ancestors´ spirits by playing the piano to defeat the ghost.
Wilson uses the supernatural element to allow Berniece to stop making excuses for her despair and anguish, so she can bury the past and move on with her life.
It affected its economy because Georgia's revenue mainly comes from agriculture. With the drought Georgia was not able to grow as many crops as it used to. Many farmers lost their money and could not buy things like fancy machinery causing for the people that sold things like cars to go out of business. This cause for people to stop buying things making it an entire disaster.
The punctuation marks are of great importance, since they have as function to bring to writing all the expressiveness, pause and intonation of speech. In this way, these signs draw the reader's attention to specific words that generate some purpose for the sentence.
