The conflicting interests of the mother and the father result in a situation where one must make a sacrifice in order to preserve the connection in the family. The flat depressed tone of the poem reflects the mother’s unhappiness and frustration about having to constantly
With the wife also displaying similar brown lines on her body, the comparison between the fish and the wife is shown with a sense of similar feelings of distress in their current situations. The narrator is able to feel sympathy towards the female fish because she can sense her fear of being cornered and a need to hide herself from the male. Just like the female fish, the narrator is going through a similar situation with her husband, in that the narrator felt belittled by her husband and a need to hide herself from him when he would be in one of his moods. For example, the birth of their daughter, they had different views on childbirth. The wife wanted to do a water birth because she heard it was a better for the baby, but she didn't argue for it because she
I think the narrator is saying that like the sea his mother is dark and intimidating like her people who are also fishing people. In my opinion I think the mother makes the mood of the story dark and melancholy. She wants so much out of her husband and children, and when they don’t do what she wants she doesn’t talk to them. The mother puts too much pressure on the family to do what her family did. I can understand that the mother didn’t want to be alone, but as a mother you should want you kids to do better than you did and want them to succeed in life.
It was symbolic because the mess of the house reflected their lives. The mess was the result of the sudden death of their parents. They were left with no financial support and instructions on how they should continue living. The pond was a significant motif in the story because it symbolized the close relationship between Kate and Matt. Matt often took her to the pond, and pond watching became a type of therapy.
The fish being stuck in this tank and isolated from society shows how some people could be stuck in a problem and might not know how to solve the problem or that they are even in a problem. Other people looking into this problem could be intimidated by the possibility of getting involved in this problem or getting themselves in their own problem. This can stop people from helping them, for example, the teacher “Mr. Williams” decided to one day pick up the fish and throw it out of the tank onto the ground, and all of the students were frozen in fear and anxiety when they saw the fish on the ground and they knew it was dying but they were too afraid of getting suspended to help the fish. At that moment two brave girls saved the fish and still ended up getting suspended even though they did what was right. Moreover, another example of symbolism is when the audience was told
The unlikely characters of “(love song, with two goldfish)”, the “He” in the poem is primarily focussed on as he is abandoned by “Her”. The progression of his isolation starts when “Her love’s since gone belly-up” and the stylistic of the parenthesis also is a tell to show their separation as the last stanza is split more and more as it gets closer to the end(Chua 18-19). The parenthesis were symbolic for the relationship between he and her or more visually the fish bowl that they shared and as they separated so did the bowl. The effect on the two goldfish was a little exceeding of the acceptable amount of dramatic but was accurate enough to represent what isolation can cause. The use of graphic diction such as “belly-up” can infer a deeper form of melancholy, one to a degree of life threateningly depressed after being isolated by one’s love.
The cooked fish signifies the death of the Malay culture within the family. However, the father didn’t give up. In the future, the narrator moved to an apartment, where she was
In addition, during the poem, the narrator spoke to different things. It caused confusion, each time the reader needed to figure out who her addressee was. For example, it was not clear to whom she was referring in the sentence '' The world wasn't yours''. Did she speak to the fish or to the
Also, the fish represent the obstacles that one may face while trying to reach their goal and shaping their ability to achieve it. This ultimately challenges them to decide whether to accept the task and grow or abandon their dreams by giving up. The girl’s the environment around her influenced her hard work ethic and her decision to have patience to accomplish her
Within the poem there are is a numerous number of themes which is, dominance of father figure , alcohol because of the father drinking and, getting to spend time with his dad . Also, there are many symbols as well which include the father is a drunkard to him clinging to the shirt of his father as he dances and the
The use of personification is common in children. Therefore, this use conveys a feeling that a child wrote the poem. In addition, the narrator reminds the fish the time, in which it could not swim. If the reader reads this sentence, he will not understand it since there is not a fish that cannot swim. Nevertheless, if the reader reads it as a metaphor, he will understand the meaning behind it.
The narrator immediately incorporates symbolism insinuating the emphasis on struggle in the first stanza. Symbolizing adversity, she tells the reader “I think by now the river must be thick with salmon. Late August,
Ellen Bass used the depressing tone and the questions about the past events about the brother in the poem to show not to hold onto the past. She shows this by telling the story of a depressed girl that carries around a dead butterfly because it reminds her of her brother. Bass wanted us to learn that you can’t move forward if you are stuck in the
The last line of the poem is “for the caged bird sings for freedom” (Angelou) this tells us that the caged bird yearns to be like the free bird. Angelou uses several descriptive images for the reader to be able to envision her words: bird, winds, floats and sky for freedom because the free bird has power, as “he soars in the sky” (Angelou) and clipped wings, tied feet and cage for confinement because the caged bird is oppressed as “caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown. ”(Angelou)
Critics of globalization, particularly nationalists, often perceive globalization as an extension of western cultural imperialism. They fear that this western domination will promote western cultures; imposing their goods, customs and language at the expense of other cultures. As a consequence, these non-western countries will lose their linguistic and cultural diversity and turn into western colonies. The questions that spring to mind from this are: Is globalization a destructive force as nationalists claim? And does it really cause a deathblow to local cultures?
