Compare And Contrast Coat Of Many Colors And My Mother Pieced Quilts

The song “Coat of Many Colors” by Dolly Parton and the poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Palomo Acosta are similar because the coat and the quilts both hold sentimental value to the writers. The song “Coat of Many Colors” by Dolly Parton and the poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Palomo Acosta are similar because the coat and the quilts both hold sentimental value to the writers. The song “Coat of Many Colors” by Dolly Parton and the poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Palomo Acosta are similar because the coat and the quilts both hold sentimental value to the writers. Additionally, in the poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts” Acosta wrote, “Oh mother you plunged me sobbing and laughing / into our past / into the river crossing at five / into the spinach fields / into the plainview cotton rows / into tuberculosis wards.” From that evidence,

In the song it says, I”n my coat of many colors / I hurried off to school / Just to find the others laughing / And making fun of me / In my coat of many colors / My momma made for me / And oh, I couldn't understand it.” Even though Parton was so proud of her coat she was made fun of and laughed at for wearing it. Unlike Acosta where the poem says, “stretched out they lay / armed/ready/shouting/celebrating / knotted with love / the quilts sing on.” In the poem, the quilts last for a long time and are probably cherished by Acosta’s family. Even though both the quilts and the coat are cherished deeply the responses the items got were different with the coat being made fun of, Parton not knowing why she was made fun of for her coat, and Acosta whose family held the quilts as something to cherish. The song and poem both showed how even things made out of rags can hold a lot of sentimental value and also showed how the sentimental value of the item can keep it cherished even if it was loved at the beginning or was made fun