The song I decided to do was Mockingbird by Marshall Mathers, more commonly known as Eminem. Eminem grew up in the ghettos of East Detroit. His father left him when he was as young as 18 months. His mother had to raise two children, him and his half brother, all by her self. Marshall had a tough life growing up. On average, he would switch schools every 2-3 months. This made it difficult to make many friends, and do well in school. He repeated the 9th grade three times, before he decided to drop out of high school. Many of Marshal’s lyrics are driven by passion, and are about his life. He has stated countless times that his success is a consequence of his abnormal and cruel childhood. His uncle introduced Marshall to rap at the age of ten. …show more content…
Ultimately, this shows the strong love a father has for his children.
“Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird
I'mma give you the world
I'mma buy a diamond ring for you”
This is an example of an allusion. This is a reference towards the classic lullaby “Mockingbird” which was the inspiration, and foundation for this song. This gives the listener a connection with his childhood. Also, the nursery rhyme has the meaning as the song its self. Both songs are trying to say that both parents would do anything for their daughters to make them happy.
“I remember back one year when daddy had no money
Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me
'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em
I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying
'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job
But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom
And at the time every house that we lived in
Either kept getting broken into and
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It is not your traditional montage, because it takes place during a longer period of time, but it still shows, little clips from different time periods, and still gives us a lot of information about his family, in a short amount of time. He shows over a dozen home videos of his daughters, Haily, Lainey, and even his ex-wife, Kim. In my opinion, I also believe this is a narrative, because his home videos correspond with his lyrics very well. For example, during the lyric “We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me But things have got so bad between us I don't see us ever being together ever again Like we used to be when we was teenagers”, he shows us a video of him, Kim, Haily’s mother, and Haily together as a family. This adds more of an emotional and memory-like tone to the
The theme of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird is the existence of racism and prejudice in the 1930 – 40's. Harper Lee succeeds in presenting the topic in a manner that is not overly simplistic and thus achieves the task of allowing the reader to fully appreciate the complex nature of unjust discrimination. Harper Lee's inclusion of characters such as Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, Dolphus Raymond and many others, aid the reader to grasp the concept of racism and its central role in the town of Maycomb.
“I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after the birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mocking bird.” Atticus Finch recites these lines to his two children, Jem and Scout after he gives them air-rifles for Christmas. Scout is curious, as this is the first time that she has ever heard her father refer to anything as a sin, Scout asks Miss Maude what Atticus meant by this. Miss Maude tells Scout that mocking birds don’t rip up people’s garden’s or annoy them in any way, all they do is play beautiful music for us to listen to.
Mockingbirds symbolically represent innocent, defenceless individuals, who bring nothing but joy to the world. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Arthur Radley, Tom Robinson and Dolphus Raymond are all symbols of the mockingbird. Many people in Maycomb see these people as mean and cruel but in reality they “don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.”
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee sheds light upon the controversy of racism and justice in his classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The notion of equality in accordance with the law and the pursuit of justice are hindered by racial discrimination. The essence of human nature is pondered. Are we inclined to be good or in the wrath of evil? The novel reflects on the contrasting nature of appearance versus reality.
In “To Kill A Mockingbird”, by Harper Lee, Lee uses a quote saying “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us” (Lee 94). Mockingbirds are portrayed as very delicate and innocent within this book, just as Boo Radley and Tom Robinson.
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus is an ideal father, who sets a great example for his kids. A picture of Atticus is important to Scout because Atticus teaches Scout many important life lessons about life. Firstly, as Atticus talks to Scout about Miss. Stephanie, he states “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee,30). Scout realizes that one can never feel someone’s pain, happiness, or glory until she looks at their point of view of things; she learns to consider other people’s situation and feelings. She also understands that she will never know what goes in other people’s lives, and therefore she cannot judge anyone. Scout matures as she learns to apply Atticus’ wise advice to understand Mrs. Dubose and Boo Radley, who are individuals that are misunderstood by the community. Furthermore, as Miss Maudie talks to Scout, she states “Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets” (Lee, 46). Miss Maudie knows about Atticus’ personality quite well. Miss Maudie explains to Scout Atticus is a man with moral principles, he does what he believes is right even if others are not there to praise him. Through Atticus’ exemplary role, Scout understands the importance of integrity, and strong moral values. Finally, when Scout questions her father about the possible outcome of the trial, Atticus states “simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us to try to win” (Lee, 76). Atticus teaches Scout toleration, determination and moral courage. He already knows he is going to los...
this metaphor analyses atticus finch, boo radley, and tom Robinson because in T.K.A.M, mockingbirds only sing and do good stuff never anything bad .
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (90). Although the title of the novel has little literal connection to the actual storyline, it holds a huge amount of symbolic weight in this tale of innocents wounded by the evil surrounding them. The ‘mockingbird’ represents various characters in the novel that are harmed one way or another, particularly by the judgmental, prejudiced ways of the Maycomb townsfolk. Throughout the course of the book, the innocence they once had is destroyed, figuratively ‘killing’ the mockingbirds.
In the realistic fiction novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the title emphasizes the stories of Tom Robinson and Boo Radley, who symbolize mockingbirds because they are innocent and do not harm. After Atticus tells the kids not to shoot mockingbirds, Miss Maudie explains, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (pg. 93). Just like a mockingbird, Tom Robinson does no harm, yet he faces prejudice due to his race, which ultimately causes his death. He helps Mayella, Bob Ewell’s daughter, do many odd jobs for free out of the kindness and sympathy of
The daughter assumes her mother is mad at her,” When asked, she said she would grab something later/ and it made Kayla afraid to ask what she’s done.” (lines 10-11). Momma is not mad, but hiding the fact that they do not have enough food for all of them to eat. The narrartor says,” Momma put me down in my bassinet/ and began to lick the crumbs from my sister’s plate.” (lines 17-18). The poem is suggesting that their house is not in the best of conditions and they do not have a yard to play in: “When all the scampering children were bundled up/ and sent down to the parking lot of the Masonic Lodge/ to pass the football, futile task that it was,” (lines 12-15). This shows they have nothing but an empty lot to play in. The inside of the house is not in the best of conditions either: ” the fugitive football on the cracking counter.” (20). Even though the mother is not in the best situation,she still loves her
In “Night Calls” a man and a daughter of this kind of love. Not shown at first, but towards the end of the short story after the girl's mother died it brought the two closer than they were at the beginning of the story. The author, Lisa Fugard got her inspiration for this story after watching a documentary of the last two Japanese herons species and it touched her how an old man watched over them and cared for them. That caringness was brought into the story and brought out between the relationship of Marlene and her father. This carningness helps supports the sad but hopeful tone. This quote is Marlene listening and not hearing the heron, the father's last connection to his wife. “Then, one long night I didn't hear the heron’s call. The bird disappeared...I saw that my father’s eyes had gone dull like a dead animal in the morning”(Fugard 571). This quote shows how much this bird meant to the father and how Marlene was close enough to his father to tell that it really hurt him. Not only losing their mother, but their mothers prized possession was hard for both of them, but brought them closer together in the long
“Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird…I asked Miss Maudie about it. ‘Your father's right,' she said. 'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'” (Lee 119).
A mockingbird “doesn’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” (119) It is stressed by some influential characters, such as Atticus and Miss Maudie (119), that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Lee explains this metaphor through these characters to put a filter in the reader’s mind of what it it means to diminish innocence when considering upcoming issues and social confrontations.
In third stanza Trethewey cries, “At the cross trussed like a Christmas tree” (9). Trethewey tries to give us reader an important visual image of a cross burning that she saw as a little child from a window by comparing with Christmas tree to understand the situation of her back in time. In addition, she also cries, “a few man gathered, white as angels in their gowns” (10). This implies the innocent view of Trethewey as a child. The white men in gown refers to those member of the Ku Klux Klan, who were standing in her front lawn wearing their customary white outfit. Little girl assumes that those men in white are sent by God, therefore, she links them with an angel. This stanza shows a faith and hope for little girl with new understanding of world who born in mixed race family and living in racist area, such a Mississippi during that time and suffering with a lifestyle because she was mixed. This has an impact on all her poems that comes from Native Guard. As Trethewey says, “I think I always understood myself as somehow a part of history. My understanding had to do with my very existence” (qtd. in
In the opening verse of the song, the speaker discusses the need to see her childhood home at least once more before moving on with her life. She shares with the current homeowner some of her experiences while growing up in the house. For instance, she says, “I know they say you can’t go home again, but I just had to come back one last time.” This shows that the speaker realizes that returning “home” is going to be a different experience than it was when she lived there, but she cannot resist the temptation of a final visit to the “house”. The speaker says that “Up those stairs in that little back bedroom, is where I did my homework and learned to play guitar. And I bet you didn’t know, under that live oak, my favorite dog is buried in the yard.” This indicates some of the significant memories the speaker has of her time in the house, such as honing her...