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"Crossing the Swamp," a poem by Mary Oliver, confesses a struggle through "pathless, seamless, peerless mud" to a triumphant solitary victory in a "breathing palace of leaves. " Oliver's affair with the "black, slack earthsoup" is demonstrated as she faces her long coming combat against herself. Throughout this free verse poem, the wild spirit of the author is sensed in this flexible writing style. While Oliver's indecisiveness is obvious throughout the text, it is physically obvious in the shape of the poem itself.
There are many themes in the novel My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt. Through the events of Tiger’s life, the reader sees why differences make us who we are, why death is a part of life, and also that true friends will ask for nothing more than an individual’s companionship. As she grows, Tiger learns about life and all the difficulties it will bring, but she also learns that she will have friends who will be with her every step of the way. First of all, the author seems to make a point that people can sometimes find it hard to think that different is okay. In the novel, Tiger is often made fun of by Abby Lynn and her group of friends because her mother acts so out of place due to her condition.
The novel, One for the Murphy’s, written by Lynda Mullaly Hunt is really entertaining. This book tells the story from Carley Connors point of view. Carley, the main character, has a very rough life, and is very tough. After her mother betrays her she gets moved into foster care. She gets put in an amazing foster home, and realizes what it’s like to have a family who cares for her.
In an excerpt from her novel We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates uses disorganized syntax, detailed imagery, and repetition to characterize the speaker, Judd Mulvaney, as a young, curious boy, coming-of-age and suddenly aware of his maturity and of the realities of life. In the excerpt, Oates uses disorganized and unusual syntax to display the enormity of Judd’s revelation, thus alluding to his sudden awareness and depicting him as a young boy shocked by the brevity of life. As Judd comes to terms with the fact that one day he will die, he becomes disturbed by the reality that death is inevitable and his heart rate quickens. He interrupts his sentence to describe its rhythm: “ONEtwothree ONEtwothree!”.
Mary Chesnut was born on March 31, 1823, in South Carolina. Chesnut is best known for her Civil War diary, A Diary for Dixie. A Diary for Dixie tells us the story of women role during the Civil War. The first entry is dated February 18 1861. She had just found out that Mr. Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States.
Stereotypes and Culture Appropriation The view of an individual or group has a lot to do with how society has developed. Society has evolved to target groups by stereotypes and culture appropriating. Stereotypes and culture appropriation negatively impact the Indigenous Community by making Indigenous communities not find their identity and get comfortable within the stereotypes. Firstly, In the passage Pretty Like a White boy by Drew Hayden Taylor he explores his difficulties with growing up Indigenous but not looking like the usual stereotypical Indigenous man. Hayden Taylor talks about his identity crisis in the passage saying “And like most insecure people and specially a blue eyed Native writer, I went through a particularly severe I identity
Shin Dong-hyuk lived in a North Korean camp for most of his life. As of right now, there are about 150,000 to 200,000 people imprisoned in these camps. In the biography Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden, Shin Dong-hyuk is the only known prisoner in North Korea's camps to have escaped. Shin was born in Camp 14 and grew up without any knowledge of the outside world. Many things happened to him, he witnessed a fellow student beaten to death; he was badly burned over hot coals; had a finger chopped off; was lice-ridden, cold, and nearly always hungry.
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm is about a girl named Turtle, the protagonist. The antagonist is the society. She lived in New Jersey but moved in with her Aunt Minnie to Key West, Florida because her mom worked as a maid and her client didn't allow kids. When she got to Key West, her aunt Minnie had three sons, Beans, Kermit, and Buddy. Off the bat, Beans did not like her at all and always had something snarky to say.
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse is a thought-provoking sci-fi short story that explores the tensions and paradoxes inherent in the representation and commodification of Native American culture. Using New Criticism Theory to analyze the ways in which Roanhorse uses language and structure to create these tensions and paradoxes. In this short story, Roanhorse uses a second-person point of view to immerse readers in a “virtual” experience, providing readers with their own Indian Experience™. The story follows protagonist Jesse Turnblatt, who works as a “guide” at a virtual reality company. Throughout the story, Jesse Turnblatt experiences the commodification and cultural appropriation involved in this virtual world,
In the first line of the poem, the speaker announces directly “I have been one acquainted with the night” (540). Through using the pronoun “one”, the speaker tries to emphasize his loneliness because he is single at that moment. The pronoun “one” means that the speaker is just one of the people who is acquainted with the night. Also, Frost wants to obtain the rhythm of the poem. The word “night” is the key word in this poem, and most people will associate night with fear and death.
“He had given me the power of one, one idea, one heart, one mind, one plan, one determination”(). In the novel The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, the power of one, as shown by the quote is to focus on the one. Hoppie gives Peekay his first idea of the power of one, a solid idea of where one stands. One idea of how they feel and where they are going. Peekay takes this and usis this power of one throughout the novel.
Rachel McCann Ms. Norman NBE3U1-02 8 May 2024 What it Means to Live Together In the novel Motorcycle and Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor, the necessity of cultural understanding and respect for Indigenous perspectives is explored through the characters and conflicts depicted. The author explores the idea that people must become knowledgeable about each other’s culture in order to live together well, as demonstrated through the disrespect the Indigenous people experience through their loss of land and John’s respect for indigenous culture, ultimately suggesting that knowledge of others can create strong communities. Colonizers’ perspective on the land conflicts with the Indigenous peoples’ connection to the land. Arguments on land property
As I read many of the essay in This I Believe edited by Jay Allison I felt like many of them related to my life, some more than others. Out of the many essays in This I Believe my favorite is “Remembering All the Boys” by Elvia Bautista. This is my favorite essay because her and I share many of the same beliefs and views on treating people with kindness and compassion no matter what wrong they’ve done to you or your family, which are core values my family instilled in me at a young age. At one point in her essay she says, “My brother was sixteen when he was shot by someone who liked red, who killed him because he liked blue”(17). A few lines later she says “And we will go together and bring a big bunch of flowers enough for both of these
The organization of the poem is also emphatic by trying to get to our emotions to show gratitude to Harriet for her determination to end slavery, so this is very emphatic to get to our emotions in this poem. The diction of the poem is poetic. The poem has meaningful words to express the nature of the poem, which is freedom, and determination. The words used in this poem express Harriet Tubman's desire to be free from slavery and be determined to end
This Lullaby- Sarah Dessen Somebody: Remy Star was a typical teenage girl from the outside, but was far from typical on the inside. She had long dark hair and dark eyes. She was the girl who had amazing grade, and got a full ride scholarship offer to Stanford. Remy was the daughter of famous author Barbara Star and her father was a musician, who tragically died when she was young.