He started copying down every word, page after page as a way of learning. The author uses pathos when explaining Malcolm’s struggles with his writing skills. “ It was sad. I couldn’t even write in a straight line.” (258) It creates sympathy in the audience, but Malcolm also gave us belief that he will succeed with learning to reading: “ I suppose it was inevitable that my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying.” (259) I think his self-motivations and self-teachings are a form of hope that he wanted to show every struggling reader; he wanted to pose as an example. As he continues explaining his studies he creates a strong credibility when he compares his prison studies with if he had attended some college; he says: “ I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all that.” (266) He had studies far more intensively that he would have ever in his life.
This poem takes a different approach than I’m used to seeing in the struggle between the protagonist and antagonist. Langston being the only colored student in his class worries that his paper will not be received the same as his white peers. Langston describes his walk back to Harlem after class and all the history he passes on his way. I feel that Langston has a greater appreciation for his schooling than his peers because he has crossed many obstacles to obtain
Lastly, the tone revolves around a self-critical and enthusiastic one. The father makes the son analyze his life based on insights he gives him. Thus, its tone enables audiences to reflect on their life and adopt the author’s recommendations for a meaningful life. The straightforward poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes is a story of a mother who assures her son that he is bound to face uncountable adversities in life, and must outwit them to keep going. Hughes
““Let the pupil make careful note of the following EXCEPTIONS.”” (paragraph 3, lines 8-9), for instance, or, “ ..last line of it - AFTER WHICH COMES THE VERB, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about;”(paragraph 5, lines 17-19) are examples of this particular comical approach. Mark Twain may have used this strategy to evoke readers to pay more attention to certain words, and to increase the words’ importance in his experience with learning the language. In the essay, Mark Twain has a tendency to put in his own personal opinions after an idea he feels strongly about. For example in paragraph 5, lines 23-26, Twain states, “I suppose that this closing hurrah is in the nature of the flourish to a man’s signature - not necessary, but pretty”. By saying his opinion at the end of the quote, Mark adds his own “personal flare”.
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.
The film I chose was “Dead Poet Society”, starring Robin Williams who plays a very serious role instead of the funny ones I’m more familiar with. The character he plays is John Keating the new English Professor and a previous student at the prestigious Welton private school for boys. Instead of following the deep rooted traditions of the school, he teaches them how to think and learn for themselves. Most of all he teaches the young men to live the films mantra of “Carpe Diem” which is Latin for “Seize the day”! The highly respected Welton Academy is a prep school that is a very conservative institution that serves as a high school for parents who insist on sending their children to the best universities.
In my opinion I think that people especially kids have become to comfortable using the word, most kids have no filter and feel that it is okay to use the word not realizing that some people, especially black people still find the word offensive. In the 60 Minutes segment, the only black kid in a class of all white students found himself feeling uncomfortable in class while his teacher repeated the word nigger during class. Author David Bradley believes that white people do not have the right to use the word nigger that being able to use the word nigger means you have to be able to accept everything that goes with it. He says that all the good stuff that goes along with being able to use the word is “having the awareness that your people have overcome centuries of oppression”. When the interviewer says that the word is hurtful Bradley replies by saying, “the word is not hurtful but how it is used and the person who is saying it is hurtful”.
Skrzynecki’s words, “gentle father kept pace only with the Joneses of his own mind’s making” as quoted from his poem ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ exhibits, through the descriptive word ‘gentle’ and the metaphorical use of ‘only with the Joneses of his own mind’s making’, the obvious admirations of son to father as well as the childhood lesson of staying true to oneself. Thus, upholding the concept of belonging in the English curriculum as well as continuing the analysis of Skrzynecki’s poems is vital as it permits students to understand the notion of familial relationships. After all without our family, who else could we belong to? Will Hodkinson’s feature article “Marked as an enemy of the state” also demonstrates the importance of familial belonging. Baldaev’s widowed wife Valentina expresses her strong emotions when referring to Baldaev’s drawings as “she didn’t know what to do with them, but she was concerned that her family would throw them out when she died.
Explore the dramatic role and characterization of Irwin, is he a liar, an inspiration or is he the wisest person in the play? Irwin is a young “Oxford” history graduate that is hired by Felix to give the boys “polish” and “edge”. I put Oxford between the quotation marks because nobody knows his real university. He lies, but he does his job well. He is smart, creative, and motivating.
She will remember the people who had loved her grace and her beauty with either real or fake sentiments in the past, and also that one man who had loved her soul unconditionally as she grew old and the way she looked changed. As she is reminded of him, she will regret her missed opportunity of true love. Theme & Tone & Rhyme Scheme: The poem is written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ABBA CDDC EFFE which gives a steady rhythm to the poem. The themes of the poem are love, loss and regret and although based on the poet’s own personal life, the sentiment reflected in this poem is common to most, if not all, rejected lovers. Yeats’ tone helps enrich the reader’s conception of the poem’s theme.