Linda Pastan Judgement

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No one likes to be judged, whether the judgement is good or bad. People in general are already critical of themselves to have the time to be critical of others, but, people seem to have found toe time to do it. In Linda Pastan’s “Marks’, the mother receives judgement in the form of grades from her family members. The last two lines of the poems could be read one of two ways, of that of indignance or melancholy. One outcome that people would expect is for her to kill herself, but as the reader, my belief goes far past that. Due to the tone of this poem, it is in firm belief that the mother could have in fact be leaving her family to start a new life outside the judgement of her family. A’s, incompletes, “could improve” and a simple pass or

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