Trial Of The Grasses Novels & Stories

Matteo said loudly, "Mr. Leeroy won’t part with the Green Plum Grass unless it's a matter of life or death." "I need the Green Plum Grass to save someone," Rozi insisted, "Mr. Leeroy wouldn't be unwilling to help in such a critical situation, right?" Matteo hesitated to speak, knowing that Rozi had no chance of obtaining such potent medicinal herbs since she belonged to the Sun Tribe. The social hierarchy in Debonaire was strict, and the lives of the Sun Tribe members were undervalued. Yet, he dared not voice this out loud. Witnessing Adrian's remarkable strength moments ago, Matteo thought that perhaps Leeroy would make an exception.

Hope especially loved its scent. A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. She said, reciting a line from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself. She loved literature so much she can recite lines from memory. It’s one of her favorite poems. The significance of Grass, is that a single blade of grass represents an individual in society.The blade or spear of grass is amongst an innumerable host of leaves of grass. It is a representation of this grass, as well as distinct and separate (as an individual blade) from this multitude.