* More: * Birmingham * Ballads * * tweet * Print FlagPost a comment The Ballad of Birmingham is a sad poem written by Dudley Randal around 1963. The poem shows how a mother wants to protect her child from the dangers of protesting by sending her child to church. The mother believed that the church was too sacred of a place for bad things to happen like a church bombing. But when she heard the explosion sound of a bomb going off, she knew that her belief about the church being safe from danger was wrong. The poem also has a lot of irony and twists, take the child for example, the child wanted to go face to face with danger by marching the streets in Birmingham with her friends but instead was killed in a church bombing.
By the end of TKMB by Harper Lee, the change in Scout from the beginning to the end is extremely conspicuous to the readers and her family although it may not be to Scout herself. Scout Finch never wanted to be like her Aunt Alexandra, who was always trying to be polite and lady like. Scout tells her aunt that she didn’t wear dresses because she wouldn’t be able to do “things that required pants” (81). Scout never does anything that requires a skirt, other than going to church. If she did wear a skirt, she is telling her aunt that she wouldn’t be able to do anything.
Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arm… The dress is loose and flows, and as she walks closure, I like it. I hear Maggie go "Uhnnnh" (Walker 2439). She shows a very selfish characteristic and that trait is repeatedly brought out in the story. For instance, she begins to ask for things in the house like the chair and desk. Another instance is when she asks her mother for the quilts her grandmother had made, her mother said they were for Maggie; Dee's reply was, “Maggie wouldn't appreciate the quilts” and Maggie says, “Dee can have them” (Walker 2441).
Because of the pragmatism, she thinks Dee “burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn’t; necessarily need to know.” when she(Dee) reads to Maggie and herself (Mama). Because of the education, she has not the sense of high cultural art. For example, when she predicts Maggie and John Thomas’s wedding scene, she thinks of herself being “free to sit here and I guess just sing church songs to myself. Although I never was a good singer. Never could carry a tune.” As a result, she tends to emphasise her physical strength, like “I was always better at a man’s job.” for self-assertion perhaps.
Then she asked for her grandmother’s handmade quilt. Since Maggie was getting married soon, Ms. Johnson said no to Dee because the quilts were Maggie’s wedding gift. Dee got angry because she thinks Maggie will just ruin them putting them into everyday use. Instead she wanted to take them to hang them on a wall. Ms. Johnson looks at Maggie and takes the quilts from Dee’s hands.
Maggie knows she deserves the quilts made by her grandmother and aunt far more than Dee does but of course Dee thinks that everything is about her and that she should have what she wants. Maggie probably thinks that Dee will get the quilts because she had seemed to be Mama’s favorite, but not this time. Like Mama says, “This was Maggie’s portion.” Maggie deserves them way more than Dee. It is like they are back in church where once she would give Dee her “slightest whim,” she now refuses. After the fire it left Maggie with scars on the inside and out and that is why she acts so shy and timid throughout her
Country Lovers VS the Welcome Table Shantel Rider ENG125: Introduction to Literature Nathan Pritts October 1, 2012 Country Lovers VS the Welcome Table “Country Lovers” and “the Welcome Table” both deal with interracial problems. In “Country Lovers” the two young lovers are forbidden to see and be with each other because they are of different races. In “the Welcome Table” the little old lady is kicked out of church because she is black and it is a white church. I feel that both stories themes are shame and selfishness. In “Country Lovers” Thebedi and Paulus are sneaking around and get pregnant and do not think of the consequences and Paulus kills the baby when he finds out Thebedi has given birth to a baby and sees that it is light skin.
In paragraph four, Esperanza used a synecdoche to show that even though she inherited her great grandmother name, she did not want to follow the same path as her. Esperanza stated, “I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window “ (110). Her great grandmother was trapped in a compulsory marriage and longed for an escape. Esperanza was also teased at school she said, “At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth” (110). Meaning the kids at school had a difficult time pronouncing her
Scout learned that Ms. Merriweather thinks Helen Robinson should be reprimanded because it is her skin color and her unfaithfulness to the church that caused their misfortune. The group of ladies that form the church circle should be an open-minded group, but they have only shown to be insensitive and unsympathetic. The full maturation of Scout is shown when she thinks to herself on the Radley porch, “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shows and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.” (374).
Our school is surrounded by sharp wire so we don’t runaway. My friend was taken away from her family from Rosebud reservation to come to school. She cries all the time because her heart hurts for her mom. The teachers would beat me and my friends if we spoke our native Lakota language. Forced to convert to be Christians, not practice old ways.