Exploring Cuban History and Poetry: A Literary Analysis

For this artifact, I wrote a literary analysis, and as a class we ready Everyone Leaves by Wendy Guerra. This was a learning process for myself, I got to go more indepth about Cuba and its history, based off of a time period when cuba was under strict circumstances. I also was taught how to write about different poems such as African praise poem, senryu collection, Ballad poem and practice writing free verse. These were some skills that helped me create my artifact by building up evidence on focusing on one character. The essay's main idea is to see what theme is stated, implied throughout the entire story. The essential question for this assignment was why do people stay or why people leave. This is meaningful especially during the time when

The book seems realistic, I tend to love Historical fiction literature. It was challenging to write a new paragraph for each page set because I felt repetitive, I have never experienced that, so it was something new. I think the phrase that I wrote was in a poem I wrote for the page sets, this is what I said “ My journal is where I let my mind be free my body is slowly shutting down the lies that they are feeding me, I can no longer see, my left ear contains no sound. I know I will shine, Can you tell me you would stay.” This phrase struck out to be it basically depicts the whole story in the poem. The way her father treated her had really stuck to me, I was surprised I could actually read about something that deep and understand what they are saying. It shows I can use words to build my Ballad poem, connecting it to my reading. As a writer I have seen my growth with the words I choose to use. The way I phrase certain situations, since the beginning of my senior year I was a horrible write and now it is still not as good as others in my class but I am working my way up there. I am prepared for college-writing level; by the time I am done with my senior year I will feel fully prepared. I feel my strongest topics will be topics that I am interested and something I will struggle with fantasy topics my mind does not process that idea well, such as Harry Potter, Hunger