Did you know, an estimated 3.5% (2.5 million) of children under the age of 18 in the united states have experienced the death of a parent? The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander, is a novel written in verse. It follows a Middle-schooler named Josh, as he goes through problems such as his father’s health problems and his brother’s girlfriend. In the book, Josh realizes that family is one of the most important things in life and that when things go wrong, keep going. The author of The Crossover, Kwame Alexander uses poetic structures, like enjambment and dialogue, to show the themes that family is one of the most important things and to keep going (respectively).
When I stared at my father’s eyes I saw a man who felt hopeless. It was the first time I saw him cry. All our burdens were placed on him. He did not find support through Cambridge Public Housing. I watched my father’s hopelessness turn to desperation.
A variety of issues are examined in Dawe’s poetry, most of which, aren’t uniquely Australian. In ‘The Wholly Innocent’, the poet utilises the narrator being an unborn baby to express their opinion on abortion. The emotive language; “defenceless as a lamb” and comparisons of abortion to “genocide”, all turn this poem into a type of activism, for pro-life; a concept that is certainly not uniquely Australian; as abortion is only legal (on request) in 4 states and territories. These issues aren’t always directly referenced in Dawe’s poetry, much like in ‘The Family Man’, which chooses to explore suicide and it’s effect. The man who killed himself had no name - he was just a statistic, that had “all qualifications blown away with a trigger’s touch”.
“The Story of Tom Brennan” explores the confronting nature Tom’s experiences as a result of his Brother, Daniel, being sentenced to prison. Tom’s pain transition into this new environment with his family in pieces, conveys how transitioning can be confronting. “There aren’t words to describe how black and empty that pain felt. It was deeper than the darkest hole. It had no beginning and no end”.
He describes the anguish and pain of being separated from family members, such as when he is taken away from his mother as a young child. For instance, he writes, "I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life; and each of these times was very short in duration, and at night" (Chapter 1). This emotional appeal is particularly effective in eliciting sympathy and anger from readers.
For the entire duration of the poem, the reader is able to infer how the complexity of the relationship changes and how the father feels about his son through the techniques and methods stated above. Within A Story, Lee uses point of view from both characters to convey the idea that the father’s relationship with his son is indeed, increasingly complex. The reader also learns from this point of view technique that the time of thought within the poem constantly changes. The boy’s young age is shown clearly in the beginning of the poem as: “His five-year-old son waits in his lap.”
The Border and Transportation Security division is the biggest area of the DHS; it is in charge of securing U.S. outskirts and transportation frameworks. This directorate no more seems to work as a different division of the DHS. Rather it functions as a piece of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), which likewise handles the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate. Starting 2011, the obligations of this directorate seem, by all accounts, to be taken care of by U.S. Traditions and Border Protection, alongside different divisions and workplaces, as a component of the DHS. Different organizations working under the umbrella of the BTS incorporate the Transportation Security Administration, the Animal and Plant Health
In the final analysis, most readers of this poem tend to deduce a dark theme of physical violence due to its tone, word choice and imagery. Nonetherless, Roethke balances positive and negative tones of the poem to give it a rich and ambiguous quality. The exceeding tendency to paint the picture of child abuse deprives it, of this quality. “My Papa’s Waltz,” illustrates a special and powerful moment, shared between a father and a son through a waltz.
In “Knock Knock” Beaty is trying to emphasize the effects on families that they face through racism, stereotypes that others create, and that us as children do not have to grow up to be our parents; that we can create our own path. The words that Beaty uses in his performance brings to light the racism and the strength that one can find when facing difficult times. Beauty opens
Don’t be a Bystander If the citizens of Germany never agreed with Hitler’s ideology the atrocities of that war would have never happened, maybe even the war wouldn’t have happened. Pastor Niemoller’s poem “First They Came” is the best imagery of this.
In his poems Blake uses imagery and diction to contrast how children meet adversity with naive hope while adults meet adversity with delusion and denial. In the 1789 version of “Chimney Sweeper,” Blake describes the situation through the eyes of a child. He invokes sympathy from the reader by creating images of a poor young boy slaving away and sleeping in “soot” (Blake 4). To show how the boys are mistreated, Blake dehumanizes one boy by comparing him to an animal. The comparison of the boy to a “lamb” being shaved also indicates that the boy’s innocence has been violated because of the inhumanity he endures (Blake 6).
It was their parent’s genuine love combined with absurd neglect, which empowered the Walls children with the tools to overcome the obstacle of their upbringing. It is because they knew they were loved; that the Walls children, together, transformed their stumbling blocks, created by their parent’s dysfunctionally into stepping stones, and allowed the children to strive and
