Comparing Those Winter Sundays And The Raincoat, By Ada Limon

“It is not until much later that children understand; their stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the water of their lives.” by Paulo Coelho. As a child grows into an adult, they soon begin to realize that parents lay the foundation for their children. All the decisions they make for their child shape the child's identity in the future. This is illustrated in the poems, “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “The Raincoat” by Ada Limon. In these stories, they demonstrate how parents lay the foundation for their children, and how parents make sacrifices for their child and most of the time the child does not realize it until much later.

To begin, when a parent makes sacrifices for their child, the child does not truly understand and realize it until later in their life. In “Those Winter Sundays” the child goes from the

In “Those Winter Sundays,” the author describes all of the things their father did for them, saying, “Sundays too my father got up early. with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather that made bank fires blaze. No one ever thanked him (Hayden 1-9).” Their father worked every day except Sundays, but even on his days off he still went and did everything he could to make his family more comfortable. He did all of this even though no one thanked him because of the love he had for his family. In “The Raincoat” the narrator explained, “My parents scrambled to take massage therapy, deep tissue work. I could breathe again, and move more in a body unclouded by pain(Limon 3-7).” Her parents dropped everything and instantly booked her all of these appointments to help her get better. They gave all of this money and all of their time because they cared for her wellbeing. In both of these stories, the parents made sacrifices out of love for their