Within the first few lines of this poem the implied author displays an indecisiveness that suggests she is all over the place in regard to thought. The following hint at this theory is when Deborah Dough asks about her cousin’s children and the “calf [she] take[s] delight in” (line 5). Here the we see the author suggesting that the cousin is the caregiver to children and baby animals around the farm. A task that is seen as womanly, therefore is the primary duty of woman of that time. As a caregiver woman are often tasked with the duty of cooking and preparing food for the household, which is the reason why things in this poem are compared to food.
He could imagine his deception of this town “nestled in a paper landscape,” (Collins 534). This image of the speaker shows the first sign of his delusional ideas of the people in his town. Collins create a connection between the speaker’s teacher teaching life and retired life in lines five and six of the poem. These connections are “ chalk dust flurrying down in winter, nights dark as a blackboard,” which compares images that the readers can picture.
The narrator’s mother is forcing her to clean rice for dinner, instead of playing football. “glancing out the window I watched a pass interception”(Mark Lines 8-9) This quote shows that the narrator is learning how to clean rice, but wants to be outside playing football with her friends. The poet uses syntax by not having any sentences. “ setting the other team up on our 20 Pour some water into the pot, she said pleasantly,”(Mark Lines 10-14) Notice how Mark does not use sentences in this poem, only a long list of fragments.
Hanna has what the narrator describes as the perfect life. Her parents are together, her house is friendly and her dad even visits their fifth-grade class. The two best friends were perfectly content with their life and no matter what they would not be separated nor turn against each other. “We were the girls with the wrong school supplies, and everything we did after that, even the things done just like everyone else, were the wrong things to do” (Horrock 473). Hanna and the narrator did not care whether they were doing the wrong thing socially, as long as they had each other.
As soon as she arrives home from school she “[sits] down at four-thirty and [works] at the piano until seven at night.” After a short break for food, Hannah resumes her “work again at eight-thirty and [goes] until ten” (Horton, 33). Hannah and Charlotte have absolutely no freedom in their lives at home. They are constantly being told what to do, how to behave themselves and what to do with their lives. With the absence of freedom, Hannah and Charlotte defy their parents to begin a new chapter in their life.
Hongo uses simple words and large amount of adjectives to create strong imagery of the poem. In addition, Hongo provides a detailed description of the scene in the poem. Hongo points out the specific setting for the incidents in the poem to create realistic scenes. For example, in the first stanza, Hongo creates a clear setting of the poem, which is in a snowy night in Chicago. Hongo’s detailed image of an Asian man doing normal activities on a snowy night in Chicago, adds to the drama.
The girl gets sick of things being perfect. She wants to venture out to a new place and experience new things that she normally doesn’t do. The young girl of the poem reveals how she is ready to leave the “front yard” to go to the “back yard”. The speaker, who is the young girl, talks about her situation in a first person point of view.
For instance, Olivia just hides from her old friends when they start to change instead of working things out with them. They came back from summer break and seemed very different from Olivia, which she didn’t like. Instead of telling the girls that she just hid from them and stops being their friend eventually. This illustrates how Olivia doesn’t know how to be a friend - and because she doesn’t have many it shows how she has a tough life. High school can be hard enough as it is without having your friends by your side to help you through it.
Title There are millions of refugees just like Ha, from Thanhha Lai's novel Inside Out and Back Again that deal with the struggles after fleeing to a new country. Many refugee children go through the hardships of finding new friends; this is similar to when Ha flees Vietnam and has to start over in Alabama. Refugee children face a new challenge in that of adapting to their new society.
Many people in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee, isolate themselves. Sometimes Isolation turns out fine for them, but other time is can hurt them in the inside and make them feel lonely and sad. Mr. Raymond is a huge outsider in town and almost everyone takes pity on him and say it’s not his fault he's a drunk. The whole town thinks he's evil because he has a mixed colored child, in Maycomb you can only be white and be accepted.
This poem is written in free verse, has an irregular meter, uses the literary element of poetic sounds, and does not use rhymes to express its meaning. The poem is an ode that is written to describe a strong emotion about something. In this case, the emotion of eating pork. Young writes the poem to describe his love and enjoyment of eating pork, but also addresses the sins this food has when partaken. The tone of the poem is contentment; eating the pork makes him happy and satisfied.
In the poem “Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer”, Mary Oliver analogizes two distinct tones. The first tone of voice Oliver uses reflects her negative ideas about the regimented school system. At the beginning of the poem there is a strong sense of what the speaker is going through. Oliver states, “I went out of the school house fast and through the gardens and to the woods,” (ln 1-2).
By removing her costume the narrator feels that she has returned to her role of being ignored by her father. As herself, she does not feel as though she has a presence. The closing line of the poem perhaps provides the most poignant moment where the narrator returns to the “real world of the kitchen” which she acknowledges her attempts at adventure are all for naught (29). There’s a sense of dissatisfaction with her situation and a sadness of becoming just another worker in the
Charlotte Nowak Mr. Colombo English 1H 2 February 2023 Scout’s First Day of School In Harper Lee’s historical fictional novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the events of Scout’s first day of school implicitly express a commentary on society’s systems by locating fault and misunderstanding in them. On her first day of school, Scout is perplexed and bewildered at the school system failing to accommodate the differences among its students.
She helps us realize that though many books were written from the perspective of one person, there was more than one side to a story and that we should strive to hear it. She looks back at an earlier time when she was just eight years old. She spoke about meeting a young boy name Fide who lived in a poor village. Her mother would always comment about how Fide’s family had nothing, and how poor they were economically. One day, she visited Fide’s home, where she saw a beautiful woven basket.
