Hughes uses many rhetorical devices in this poem to elucidate the questioning the speaker is really doing of himself. Starting with asking, “ I wonder if it’s that simple”. (6) the speaker announces this after reading over his assignment for his class but then the assignment is not only what he is questioning. The simplicity could also represent if life is “that simple” or more likely in this case if expressing one’s self is “that simple.” being, as he mentions, “the only colored student in my class” (10) expressing his feelings and experiences in life may be incredibly different compared to the others. It isn’t easy for him to express himself but this kicks off his inner conflict with the sense of staying true to himself by finding a way of accepting that he will never necessarily be exactly like his other classmates due to his skin color or the choice of making it “that simple” and forgetting the struggles that he has faced to get to where he is now and take the easy way out by following society and expressing himself the way everybody else thinks is acceptable.
Finally it will describe how these obstacles help us discover our true selves. In Cisneros essay, she describes her conflict with her desire to be a writer and her father’s expectations of her. Cisneros states, “Being only a daughter for my father meant my destiny would lead me to become someone’s wife” (Cisneros 1). This expectation only pushed Cisneros further into her passion, hoping that one day her writing would win her father’s approval. After attending four years of college and two years of graduate school, she still felt her father viewed her education as a waste because she had not married.
Mrs Linde has had to work hard and was not afforded love and children which she longed to have. She took care of her mother and brother as her own but still desired more. Once her circumstances had changed she set out to acquire that which she had lost. When Mrs Linde is introduced in Act I, we can immediately see she is a woman who has been through a harder time and worked hard to have a meekly accommodating life. She is more insightful of her surrounding than Nora Helmer.
Kimberly Uzoaru Prof Bonar English 2: Presentation 3 December 2012 Sylvia Plath “Daddy,” written by Sylvia Plath is a nursery rhyme like poem with deep metaphorical meanings. Similar to Franz Kafka’s, The Metamorphosis, Sylvia Plath creates a poem that mirrors her own personal life. This biographical poem reveals the dramatic events that Plath faces in regards to her father. The poem also represents the importance of freedom. The beginning stanza begins, “you do not do, you do not do/any more, black shoe” (1-2) Plath is trapped in a shoe that belongs to her father in which she cannot live in anymore.
Able to adjust to new conditions. 2. Able to be modified for a new use or purpose. The novel provides great examples of how some humans cannot adapt well in situations in their lives and move on. Hagar avoided dealing with the death of her loved ones, a divorce, moving across the country, and the disownment of her father, and remained same proud and stubborn lady that she always was, even as a small child.
The Influence of Grandparents In the stories “Inspired Eccentricities” and “Spirit,” both by Bell Hooks, the main characters really take after their grandparent(s) and learn a lot from them despite what their parents might think. In “Inspired Eccentricities,” the daughter really looks up to Baba and Daddy Gus even though her mother tells her to ignore most everything that they say because she doesn’t want her daughter to end up like them. In “Spirit,” the daughter gets all of the spirit that she has from her grandmother, and since the dad does not like his kids having any spirit, he tries to break her of her spirit whenever she or any of her siblings does something wrong. “Inspired Eccentricities” is about a child who really looks up to her grandparents. She explains everything about her grandparents to us and how odd they are compared to normal people, but how much she loves them for that.
The poem “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes displays the concepts of hope, color, and the feeling of being an American. The speaker displays an attitude toward hope when it comes to his race background, the similarities and differences of black and white, and the blended environment of being an American. The speaker’s attitude toward race displays a sense of hope throughout the entire poem. He is a 22 year old, colored college student who is given an assignment to do by his instructor. While he travels home to write his assignment, he reflects on his race and hopes that the instructor views his work not based on his skin color.
(i) I find the way the poet describe how her daughter has owned her instead of her owning her daughter powerful. Normally, we have the idea that when a mother gives birth to a child, the child belongs to the mother and of course, the father. However, in this poem the poet feels the exact opposite. The sentence ‘I think I’m going to have it’ tells me that the poet thought she was going to finally have this baby of hers, this baby that truly belongs to her because she is going to deliver to it. Another sentence ‘certainly I never had you as you still have me, Caroline.’ proved that the poet was conveying the message that her daughter never belonged to her instead, she belonged to her daughter.
Lewis is working hard to keep everything in her sons lives in order. She is still doing their laundry and makes several memorandum for her two boys. Text 2. A mother steps back from the pull of over-parenting is an article on the Internet written by Bethany Young Hardy, 2010. She is telling her own life story about how she loosened up by her son's lead.
They want more for their son then they were ever offered. This film shows how race can affect a person’s education but that it does not have to. The boy who attended the school was one of only a handful of black kids. He was help at a different standard because of his color. Many parents may think this is a reason to coddle their child or not expect as much from them.