Picture a world without friendship; no one to confide in, no one to share our joys and sorrows with, no one to turn to in times of need. It’s a bleak image, but it underscores just how vital friendships are to our lives. The plays Girl Who Loved Her Horses and The Boy in the Treehouse both share a common theme, friendship, each in their own unique way. Girl Who Loved Her Horses and The Boy in the Treehouse, written by Drew Hayden Taylor, are both two different plays, however, they both share similar themes.
At first, she uses joyful, welcoming ideas such as "baking bread" and "warm fine hairs" to describe her mother. However, as the poem progresses and she gets to her grandparents, she switches to a more serious tone by using dark words such as "kill" and "black." The reader of the poem develops the idea that the speaker's grandmother plays an important role in the poem from the long stanza and word choice. The speaker uses the word "brown" multiple times to remind the reader of the grandmother’s heritage. The speaker feels humiliation in the presence of her full-blood Chickasaw grandparents, her "whiteness a shame.
The other children, upon hearing this, continue forward in celebrating his life as if the very words he spoke were of good taste. Throughout the poem, the mother refers to the children as " short men" and "small bankers", developing the notion
Amber: Father Regan has transformed a few tramps myself, and he doesn’t even consider that as a “miracle” and also doesn’t consider him as a saint for doing so. Mrs. Leckie: Joel said that Mary led him to god, and changed his life, but Father Regan saying that he has done it himself and the effect on the tramp could be temporary as he can go back to being the way he was. Danat: Dunny is foolish since as he is the only one of the community looking at her in a different perspective and how although she did try to help the tramp, it was a sin anyways since she had sex with him because she’s married and has a son. What I believe is that, if it was a miracle, then it shouldn’t have a bad effect on anyone else. It does a have a positive effect
Every story consists of different elements, such as characters, plotlines, and settings. Nonetheless, many stories portray the same messages or ideas. “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, depicts a reckless father who is loved by his child, while “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, depicts a hardworking father whose child is indifferent to him. Though the poems depict exceptionally different childhoods, both contribute to the idea that perceptions of parents alter as one grows into adulthood. Both poems use harsh words and critical tones in order to convey this notion, however in “My Papa’s Waltz,” they signify the recklessness of the father and how the narrator perceives his father as an adult, while in “Those Winter Sundays,” they
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson and Arthur “Boo” Radley are two characters who represent the mockingbird. In the midst of finding who Boo truly is, Atticus Finch explains to his children, Jem and Scout, that it is a sin to kill the bird because they don’t do anything but make music. As the story progresses, and the two “mockingbirds” are being accused and attacked both verbally and physically, the identity of the mockingbirds surfaces. Tom Robinson was a crippled African American man whose left arm was a foot shorter than his right, where it was caught in a cotton gin.
Chapters 4 and 5 provides a positive and powerful tone when discussing women. Both Deborah and Jael are praised in the lyrics in chapter 5 (5:7,24). Chapter 4 depicts the women as strong and independent when completing actions. Deborah is respected and obeyed by Barak with a compromise, and Jael confidently kills Sisera (4:8-9,21-22). I find the passages comforting, since the women are treated like humans instead of objects.
Comparing and contrasting Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”, one finds the two poems are similar with their themes of abuse, yet contrasting with how the themes are portrayed. Furthermore, the speaker 's feelings toward their fathers’ in each poem contrast. One speaker was hurt by the father and the other speaker was indifferent about how he was treated by his father. The fathers’ feelings toward the children are also different despite how each treated the child. Both poems accurately portray the parent-child relationships within an abusive home, even if they have different
There is always someone, somewhere that is always doing what is morally right. They do the right thing even when everyone opposes to do so. They do what is right when nobody's looking. In the book “Mother Teresa, Missionary of Charity” by Sam Wellman Mother Teresa Is this kind of person. She was a famous nun who lived in the 20th century she lived a life dedicated to the poor.
Throughout “My Papa’s Waltz” and “Those Winter Sundays”, the author’s reflect on how their fathers were hard workers, although each memory is emotionally different. In “My Papa’s Waltz”, Roethke remembers his father coming home from work and his hands “Was battered on one knuckle” (Line 10). Even though the father had a long day at work, the boy recounts him coming home and dancing with him. Whereas “Those Winter Sundays”, Hayden recalls his fathers hard work by describing his “Cracked hands that ached/
Everyone has a father, whether their relationship with him is good or bad. Webster’s Dictionary defines the word father as follows: a man in relation to his natural child or children. “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden are two poems with themes set around a father. These poems deal with accounts of the poets’ fathers as they reminisce about certain scenes from their childhood. “My Papa’s Waltz” and “Those Winter Sundays” show similarities and differences in structure, literary elements, and central idea.
Throughout the poem, Achebe uses free verse to represent the continuous flow of the crestfallen emotions and thoughts of the mother, due to the poverty she and her son have to suffer. The suffering of the single-parent family is explicitly highlighted when Achebe describes the mother’s, “ghost-smile between her teeth.” The juxtaposition “ghost-smile” suggests that the mother’s smile is forced, she purposely held the smile up in order to cover up her depressed and hopeless emotions. This amplifies the unconditional love a mother has for her son as she only wants to show the best side of her in front of her son. Love can also be portrayed in a depressed light when the mother used, “A broken comb and combed” her son.
‘YOU OPENED MY MAIL AND FOUND SOME SEX TOYS BUT I SWEAR THEY ARENT MINE’ In which Micheal figures out Jeremy is a little more Adventourous then he’d led on Jeremy and Micheal had been dating nearly a year at this point, and it was clear to say they couldn’t be happier. They knew each other inside and out in more ways then one.
Her journey to her father expresses how much love she has for him. From the momment she leaves her home packing in only five minutes and arrive to only discover that her phone departured in only ten minutes, she gave it her all and made it. Olds interprets of enjambent, allusion, and metaphors prepares the storyline of the poem. She chronoloiges her evenst well and allows the resder to fell a part of the story. To the point of feeling anxious along with the writer and desperate to
Olds throughout the poem changes the tone of the character as events arise or progress. She states, “…the flight was cancelled, the doctors had said my father would not live through the night… A young man with a dark blond moustache told me another airline had a non-stop leaving…” The character
