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Comparing Themes In Sing, Unburied, Sing And The Fire This Time

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“ Sing ,Unburied ,Sing “and “The Fire This Time “, Written by Jesmyn , displays themes that are much alike in many ways .For example in “Sing ,Unburied ,Sing” reveals genres like family,heritage,racism,Illness and that’s because when you are reading he narrator jumps back to tell stories about JoJo’s family history and also JoJo mentions that the Mam is getting a illness called cancer. But also in “The Fire This Time” its theme would be racism .She wrote about that because she wants to show people the racism is still continuing till this day. For example the Black lives matter movement. The connecting themes that you will see through most of Ward’s novels is definitely racism.The reason why she did that though is because she wants people to see how things are now and how they we’re back then and how bad things were and that it’s not right to do any of this kind of stuff. Jesmyn’s purpose for writing those books was for her real life struggles. The symbolism that would be for Sing Unburied Sing would be singing because singing is everywhere in the novel. Characters sing to one another and also a normal speech is often compared to a song. But on the other side The Fire This First symbolizes the Church because it shows oppressive authority and hope …show more content…

Leonie is Jojo and Kayla’s mother. She isn’t the best kind of character. Her kids views their mother as a neglectful, selfish, and incomprehensible mother. In The Fire This Time would be… The protagonist that would be is Jojo because he’s usually serious and mature for his age, but the main reason is because Leonie’s irresponsibility means that he has effectively taken over as the parent of his three year old sister named Kayla. In The Fire This Time the protagonist be people because it’s on the people to want to change the things around the world. To not just change but stand up for what’s really right. Also know their wrong doings from the right and not think everything is okay to

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