Mirandy and Brother Wind - Patricia C. McKissach

This story exhibits multiculture and uses southern dialect. The main character in the story is a girl who tries to capture the wind in which she invisions as a man. She tries many different ways to catch the wind, so she can dance like the wind at the cake walk. The dance is rooted in Afro-American culture. It was performed by couples who pranced around a large square, keeping time with fiddle and banjo music. As the dancers danced, the elders judged them, and the winners took home a cake. Miranda meets a young boy, and they dance together like the wind and win the cake walk. We have cake walks at out school during Fall Festival. The traditional cake walk varies from the cake walk in the story because individuals walk around a circle of chairs to music. When the music stops, the person standing is out until the last person left with a chair to sit in wins the cake.