The speaker of "Rites of Passage" by Sharon Olds is a strange, dark, but loving character. The speaker, a mother of a first grade boy, is very grim. She sees joyful events, such as birthday parties, in dark ways. The mother describes her son's party more like a war scene than a birthday party. It is evident throughout the poem that the mother loves and cares for her son. However, when her son is with a group of other boys, the mother focuses on the violence within them, not joy.
In many books there are many conflicts that each character has to face. Some of them can be external or internal conflicts. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech a girl named Sal tells her grandparents a story about her best friend Phoebe on a road trip while her own story begins to happen. In that story Sal is telling, Phoebe is important because she has lots of external and internal conflicts that change who she is.
What is the Gate of Eden? How does it affect our main character and who he is as a person? Joe Gendreau is a very complicated character in which he is quite different from your average man. In this story there is a lot of mysteries, why is the book named the Gates of Eden, and why did the Yatsimura bros try so hard to blackmail our main character was it that important, what is Joe’s Background, is there reasons to why he was so aggressive and finally who is Ms.Ohara?
“ I am against wars,” no one has to agree with this statement, it 's a personal/ point of view because war harms more than it helps a country. War also affects a person’s identity and morals. In addition, trying to recover from a war is not easy, so many people suffer the consequences after the war is over. War can damage one’s life because it not only affects them physically but also psychologically. In any war people are confronted with physical harm, violence, danger, exploitation, fear and loss. Wars not only harms an individual but it also harms the whole family. Adults are busy surviving during a war, therefore, parents have little time for their children. “The Shawl,” is a story written by Cynthia Ozick about the war. The story is about a jewish mother, Rosa, who lost her infant, Magda, during the Nazis’s attack. Ozick explains the war from a mother and an infant perspective. This is a great point of view because normally war stories are told from
Word choice is the use of words and/or phrases in writing. By using the appropriate word choice, the author can communicate a lot to his/her audience. Some types of word choices help establish the setting. Word choice can be also used by an author to reveal how the character feels in that particular situation. Word choice can be colloquial, sophisticated, or immature [more types, but not mentioned]. In Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik, sophisticated word choice is used to establish the time and setting in which it took place.
Only Stephen King could write such a spellbinding tale of a bunch of boys doing nothing but walking.
The short story “Initiation”, by Sylvia Plath, is a short story about a girl who is struggling to feel like she fits in with everybody else. At first, she is invited to join her high school’s sorority. Then, after completing multiple initiation tasks, she realizes that the sorority girls aren't who she thought they were. After that, during one of the initiation tasks, she meets a unique person riding a bus, who tells her about heather birds, mythological birds that are free. Finally, she decides that she should leave the sorority. In the end, she realizes that being part of the sorority will constrain her, and that she would rather be a heather bird than a tame
Although the world today seems completely corrupt at times, some happiness and hope can be found when one is determined enough. Even in the middle of the worst day ever most humans manage to smile at least once in that day. However, in the two poems “For My Daughter” by Weldon Kees and “Rite of Passage” by Sharon Olds the speakers are both quite acceptant that there is no hope for a good life in this world. In these poems the speakers are parents concerned that their children are doomed to live a life of war and hurt. The authors of these poems relay a theme that even the most innocent of children will eventually be tainted by the villainous ways of society.
Out of the three wonderful narratives given, the best one is “Stepping Into the Light” by Tanya Savory. While “Shame” by Dick Gregory is an interesting read, it is the weakest out of the bunch. The story had no clear setting, to many extra details, and a lengthy exposition. “I Became Her Target” by Roger Wilkins was a better executed story, even though it still had some flaws. This piece lacks any figurative language, but it was to the point and had clear organization. Thus, Tanya Savory’s piece was the best. It was easy to follow, used a constant symbol, and used some stories from others to make her point. So using narrative styles and elements in the best way, Tanya Savory wrote the better story.
Many talk about the road less traveled; however, words mean nothing without the follow through of commitment. The rare person who is able to follow their true calling in life, must be totally focused on their goal and objectives without distraction, walks alone.
suggest that the little boy in the poem has a different point of view from the readers. For my
An Explication of Gwendolyn Brooks “The Mother” Brooks “The Mother” deals with abortion and the mother’s emotional state. It does this through a very detailed remembrance when a mother gets an abortion and feels miserable and realizes how she cannot visually perceive the child or children grow up, live life gracefully, or understand how it’s the little things the children do is what a mother will adore and miss. Brooks takes us to the perspective of some mother’s experiences with abortion and how they handle the guilt. Throughout this poem it shows denouements of grief on abortion and the terminus result of the loving affection a mother shows.
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”, so says Stephen King, a popular, present-day adult and young adult horror writer. The second son of his divorced parents, Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King, King spent his childhood, mainly with his mother, but also partly with his father in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After King made it to college, he became a part of its school newspaper which helped shape his early fondness for writing. A Baby Boomer, King grew up during a time of unrest during the Cold War of the late 20th Century. King spent his early adulthood immersed in the society focused on such things as the Vietnam War, civil rights talks, and an impending war with the Soviet Union. Popular at the time, anti war sentiments helped shape King during his early years as a writer. Fear of an all powerful government also shaped the way King and many other writers at the time
Wasley, Aidan. "An overview of “Mother to Son”." Poetry for Students. Detroit: Gale. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.
Form and meaning are what readers need to analyze to understand the poem that they are evaluating. In “Mother to Son”, his form of writing that is used frequently, is free verse. There is no set “form”, but he gets his point across in a very dramatic way. The poem is told by a mother who is trying to let her son know that in her life, she too has gone through many frustrations just like what her son is going through. The tone of this poem is very dramatic and tense because she illustrates the hardships that she had to go through in order to get where she is today. She explains that the hardships that she has gone through in her life have helped her become the person that she has come to be. Instead of Hughes being ironic, like he does in some of his poems, he is giving the reader true background on the mother’s life. By introducing the background, this helps get his point across to the reader in a very effective way. In this poem there are many key words which help portray the struggles that the mother is trying to express to her son. The poem is conveyed in a very “down to earth” manner. An example of this is, “Life for me ain’t been a crystal stair (462).” This quote shows the reader that the mom is trying to teach the son a lesson with out sugar coating it. She wants her son to know that throughout her life has had many obstacles to overcome, and that he too is going to have to get through his own obstacles no matter how frustrating it is. Her tone throughout the poem is stern telling the boy, “So boy, don’t turn your back (462).” The poems tone almost makes the reader believe that the mother is talking to them, almost as if I am being taught a valuable lesson.
The mother in the story a nameless figure with very little description and almost no voice what so ever. She is a bitter reminder of how society views some woman. They are seen as a permanent stature of a home but not necessarily a figure in society. The kids both very loud and annoying portray a selfish, rude, an almost ignorant way of society such as Jo...