Ike and Bobby in Denver

The boys go to stay with Ella and their aunt in Denver. The aunt is acting like a mother to Ella. The boys try to connect and have fun with their mother, but it is not rainbows and butterflies. The saddest part about all of this is that I can tell that Ella loves her children and she does not have a distorted sense of love. She is simply ridden down with depression. She knows her boys and good children. She never yells at them, and it is even the aunt who corrects them for smashing eggs on the sidewalk. This seems like a kind of closure for the boys, a letting-go, and they are happy when their father comes to get them.