Blood is Thicker Personal Response: I think it was an interesting book to read. Like in the beginning of the book when Hakeem and his family move to Detroit because of his dad's cancer. I think it was a jerk move to be mean like Savon was to Hakeem cause he was in a time of need, Hakeem didn't move there because he wanted too. Also that Hakeem was so sad that he lost Darcy I thought it was gonna take him longer to find another girl, but as soon as he met Anika, Darcy was set in his past.
Tracey Lindberg’s novel Birdie is narratively constructed in a contorting and poetic manner yet illustrates the seriousness of violence experience by Indigenous females. The novel is about a young Cree woman Bernice Meetoos (Birdie) recalling her devasting past and visionary journey to places she has lived and the search for home and family. Lindberg captures Bernice’s internal therapeutic journey to recover from childhood traumas of incest, sexual abuse, and social dysfunctions. She also presents Bernice’s self-determination to achieve a standard of good health and well-being. The narrative presents Bernice for the most part lying in bed and reflecting on her dark life in the form of dreams.
One of this week’s readings focused on Ch. 5, “Caged Birds,” in Professor Lytle Hernandez’s book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965, and this chapter was particularly interesting because it further explained the development of immigration control in the United States. As a continuation from the last chapter, there was a huge emphasis in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Geary Act of 1892. This essentially prohibited Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States, as well as eventually requiring these people to comply with regulations. “Caged Birds” encapsulates the events afterwards, as the book heads well into the early-1900’s. The disenfranchisement of immigrants develops towards further exclusivity because “[by] 1917, Congress had banned all Asian immigration to the Unites States and also categorically prohibited all prostitutes, convicts, anarchists, epileptics, ‘lunatics,’ ‘
Throughout The story of The birds, Nat has been able to show a savior complex by taking leadership among the others throughout his household and job. Nat is a war veteran who understands when a situation is not right. He has 2 kids and a wife who never truly understands why the birds are attacking them. Although throughout the story he tries his hardest to warn others about what is coming by adapting to the new information he finds out about why the birds are attacking. The way that Nat leads his family shows what his true intentions are and that his main goal is to save others.
“But God made my face; you cannot want to tear my face. Envy is a deadly sin, Mary.” (pg.115). During this time people of the town were easily persuaded to persecute their fellow neighbors, due to their religion and it’s principles. Thirty years before the infamous Salem Witch Trials there was a witch scare in Hartford,Connecticut, resulting in raised tensions about witches, making the hangings of 20 people more of a safety precaution rather than a righteous and fair trial.
Have you ever wondered when things like tanks, poison gas or submarines were invented or how strategies such as using pigeons to send messages or trench warfare came to be? World War One, also referred to as “The Great War” before World War Two, Had many new technological advances and strategy improvements that shaped warfare today and changed the tides of the war in America's favor. Although using pigeons to send messages was not a new idea, being used since Ancient Egypt, it was one of the safest ways to send messages without them getting intercepted. Pigeons were a good way to send messages without getting intercepted because they are small and are fast (The Ogden Standard 1).
Birds die from seeing fish in the net so they dive down in t the water getting stuck in the net there for drowning. Gill Nets are not just a threat to fish and aqua life. Gill Nets are inhuman to anything that gets stuck in side the net.
In the book, Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan, Koly has to learn to make a living by herself. This helps her to accept herself because for a while she is alone and has no place to go, so she has to learn about herself to realise that she was not alone and other people could help her. Ultimately, Whelan showed that Koly found out being alone can help you understand yourself better and more intimately. In the beginning, Koly learns that though death, one must learn to accept the hardship before healing can occur. When Hari dies all the deaths in the beginning.
Huda Paracha 812 To Kill A Mockingbird And Caged Birds “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. ”- Maya Angelou Have you ever had any emotional or physical struggles in your life that sometimes made you feel as if though you were caged and unable to achieve your goal?
By placing the bird so high up, yet incredibly close to the family, it can be taken as a warning. The bird only appears in this single line throughout the excerpt, acting as an observer but also as a predator waiting for a chance to strike, providing an unsettling truth to death being out of our control. Though many efforts may be made to create a sanctuary, there are things out of one's control and when power is exercised, there will be forces fighting back. The opening sections of the novel A Bird in the House demonstrate this clearly by how Margarets Laurence's’ use of literary devices can be interpreted.
In the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, he shows the readers a symbolic meaning between birds and books. Birds are very simple and intriguing creatures that have different meanings that can be taken both symbolically and literally. Much like birds, books have unique voices and ideas that are present throughout a piece of literature. Both books and birds are unique and diverse in every way possible. Bradbury uses birds to symbolize books being burned.
In the story, “on Birds, Bird Watching and Jazz” by Ellison, the interesting theory as to how Charles Porter Jr. got his nickname as “Bird “ is told using humor in his stories along with a careful choice of syntax and his diction. In the first paragraph, the author uses alliteration,”...and despite the crabbed and constricted character…” to give us an insight on the figure he is speaking about. The author also chooses these words to build up an impression and then breaks it by saying Parker was a most intensive melodist. In the second paragraph of this story, Ellison establishes what a nickname does and how it would originate. Continuing on, Ellison introduces a new fact to the audience, that jazzmen were labeled as cats because they were legends.
In Arthur Miller’s hit play, The Crucible, the yellow bird scene contains wild drama and fear. Mary Warren begins the scene filled with honesty, but as the commotion progresses, all sense of logic disappears, and the scene dissolves into panic. Miller creates this tone of hysteria through both the chaotic stage directions and intense dialogue. Throughout the scene, Miller’s stage directions, and the dialogue of his characters, throw the courtroom into panic and bring the tension to new heights. The way Danforth interrupts Reverend Hale while he pleads, “ I pray you call back his wife before we-,” changes the way the characters treat each other, effectively introducing a new sense of hysterics to the scene.
“Caged Bird” written by Maya Angelou in 1968 announces to the world her frustration of racial inequality and the longing for freedom. She seeks to create sentiment in the reader toward the caged bird plight, and draw compassion for the imprisoned creature. (Davis) Angelou was born as “Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St Louis, Missouri”. “Caged Bird” was first published in the collection Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing? 1983.
In this line, it is a metaphor and juxtaposition because nests are supposed to be a home, providing safety and comfort. But is filled with “sickness” from the debris caused by the