"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.
Chains, a novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson follows a young enslaved girl named Isabel at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Isabel is sold to Elihu and Ann Lockton, along with her five year old sister Ruth, after her original owner dies. The girls are shipped to the house and Ann Lockton, who demands to be called Madam Lockton, is terrible to them. She beats the girls and constantly yells at them. After this, Madam Lockton sells Ruth, making Isabel mad.
Among the marching band are Quentin’s two best friends Ben and Marcus also known as Radar. After a night of fun and vandalism with Quentin, Margo disappears. A string of witty clues are left for Quentin and his friends. Q engrossed himself in the clues and went to search for Margo.
Everyone has depression, but did you know on October 29, 1929 the whole US went into depression. People lost their jobs, people lost their homes and lot’s of other things. Every bits and piece was super valuable at that time. Some effects the Great Depression had on people at that time was people lost their money. In an article called Digging In by Robert Hastings a girl explains how importants every minute of light is.
Lacey, Ben, and Radar all come along for the 21 hour road trip and made it in time. When Margo and Q are finally reunited, they talk about things that happened during their childhood. They bury a journal that Margo had been writing stories and planning childish adventures to try and accept their
In Earle Birney’s descriptive lyric poem “Vancouver Lights” written during the Second World War, a reader is introduced to the poem through a visual panorama of sky, ocean, and city from on top of a mountain. The speaker is expressing his feelings of both celebration for human accomplishment and pessimism for probable doom while over-looking wartime Vancouver on a moonless night. Earle Birney alludes to Greek mythology throughout the poem, but the most prominent and chief allusion is to Prometheus, which is skillfully placed in the last stanza of the poem as it sparks the light to the underlying meaning. Earle Birney’s allusion to the Prometheus myth presents the poem in a way that reinforces the ultimate juxtaposition of lightness and darkness
In the realistic short story “ Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto, the main character named Victor, is desperate. Because he tries very hard to get a girlfriend, he finds many ways to be with his crush Teresa, and because he does embarrassing things to try and impress girls. The first reason Victor is desperate is because he tries hard to get a girlfriend. For instance, he promised himself “Teresa is going to be my girl this year”. In addition, Victor took Michael’s advice and used his (ridiculous) “strategy” on how to “get girls” by scowling at them.
It is a strange thing to think that a rich and greedy woman could have large similarities to a poor slave girl, taken away from her family at such a young age. Yet, this theory is not completely far-fetched. The story “Chains” by Laurie Halse Anderson opens up revealing Isabel’s character to the audience, and allows a first impression. She’s a curious and kind-hearted girl who has a younger sister, and her master had just previously died. She was promised freedom in her master’s will, but was sold at a tavern by her master’s nephew.
I. There has always been a negative perception regarding the city of Washington D.C. It is truly one city that is universally hated for one principal reason. It is the center of American politics. Mark Leibovich truly illuminates this in his book, This Town. His take on Washington showcases how the democratic institutions that have been put in place by our founding fathers during the beginning of our nation are the key components that politicians from both sides of the aisle use to create political gridlock.
Brief Summary Staples speaks of his experiences being a six foot tall, young, African American male in a city filled with poverty and crime. He had never truly been exposed to the stereotypes and discrimination in his younger days, of course he knew of it, but he never truly experienced it. When he was twenty-two years old, he was out walking at night due to a bad case of insomnia. Apparently, he was following a little too uncomfortably close to a white woman and she felt endangered. She began to run from him in a defense mechanism, opening his eyes to the discrimination he was born into.
He then thought she is probably tired and will come to school later, or maybe not come to school the whole day. When quentin walked the hallways he also remembered to look around for Margo, but she was nowhere to be found in school. Quentin then just thought she was ditching for the day, since she is probably very tired. Then the next day came around Quentin still had not seen Margo at school, and then another day went by still no Margo anywhere. Then Margo being gone about a week, her parents with some investigator came to Quentin’s house asking him and her parents information about Margo such as when was the last time you saw her?
So one night after she crawls into his bedroom looking for his help for a vengeful adventure, he goes to her aid. The next morning, Quentin looks for Margo and she is gone. Quentin
He supposed Margo would consider him as a friend now. The next day Quentin noticed that Margo was gone but he wasn't worried, this wasn't the first time Margo had gone missing. That saturday morning Quentin found Margo's parents and a detective in his living room. They informed him that last time she had gone missing she left clues to where she was but they were almost impossible to follow. After a brief discussion with the detective Quentin realized how worried he actually was about Margo.
Max Sharawy English IV Mrs. Schroder 7 December 2016 Ambition Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a tale of ambition of all forms. Whether it is the narration of Robert Walton, the tales of Dr. Frankenstein, or the point of view of the Creature, ambition drives the characters within the novel. In Walton’s case, he strives to discover new things and expand his scientific knowledge.
The narrator's mysterious; The narrator popular; The narrator is a character from Sherwood Anderson’s third person omniscient story “Hands” and readers wouldn't want him any different. Sherwood Anderson had chosen third person omniscient to create a mystery and multiple different perspectives through the characters. Sherwood Anderson choose third person omniscient point of view for “Hands” so the reader can picture the events and the perspective of multiple character which then creates a story through the characters. Some might think entering multiple perspectives and creating a mystery would result in confusion; they're wrong. It is completely necessary to see each character's thoughts.
