The poems “American Primitive” by William Jay Smith and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath have woven into them an over arching theme of a non-idyllic, problematic father-child dynamic, however each poem`s respective tone showcase two different, separately striking effects this dysfunction can have on the child. While “American Primitive” is a contemporary ballad consisting of three stanzas, each constructed by four lines, Sylvia Plath`s “Daddy” is a longer, distraught, poetic tirade of a more confessional nature. “Daddy” uses metaphors of Jewish persecution and the Holocaust. “American Primitive” gives reader a feeling one would have seeing an orphaned child, smirking unnaturally, at the funeral. Both poems are rich in material, just waiting to be dug up, interpreted, and reinterpreted again.
Tyleasha Blakely ENC 1102 Amani Francis March 14, 2012 Critical Analysis Essay "Mysterious Connections that Link Us Together" Azar Nafisi In the essay "Mysterious Connections that Link Us Together" by Azar Nafisi, the author discusses how empathy brings connection to everyone and how we should consider other people feelings. This essay writes about empathy as something that connects us to others despite our differences with them. Whenever the author thinks about this capacity to reach out to others, she thinks of Huckleberry Finn and the runaway slave Jim, and how empathy is engendered by imagination. The author wants the reader to understand that through empathy we have deep connections to everyone. In her essay,
These strategies will help me better understand the story I am reading. During Reading During reading “The Rocking-horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence I use takes cues from the text, make connection and get involved strategies. The cues were italicized and the meaning of how the money was needed was emphasized by this. The connection was with the little boy Paul; he wanted his mom to be proud of him. I want my parents to be proud of me too.
Now this is the side of the story that I see, and the theme for this said would be the importance of family. This could be the theme for this subject because in the poem the boy seems to truly enjoy the horse play with his father, as it says in the poem “Then waltzed me off to bed / Still clinging to your shirt” (15-16), which shows he wants to keep playing and not go to bed. The other theme/subject is a little darker, where it seems that a drunken father comes home late one night to beat on his son. The theme for this subject is simple, “Abuse”, as this shows a young boy being beat. An example of this in the poem is when it says, “The hand that held my wrist / Was battered on one knuckle” (9-10), which shows the boy is being beat.
Friends Through the Fence In John Boyne’s novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, readers get to engross themselves in the developing friendship between Bruno and Shmuel. In the movie, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, viewers watch Bruno and Shmuel’s friendship evolve. The friendship itself is unusual; whatever way you are witnessing it. They are two boys who should have never been friends. There is more than just the fence dividing them.
Jasper Jones – Reading Journal Questions CHAPTER 1 (PG 1 – 52) 1) Compare Jasper and Charlie in relation to their home life and personality ( Pg 5-15). Charlie Bucktin is a good boy who has always done the right thing. His mother is a strong disciplinarian and his father loves, if a little withdrawn from his son. Wes Bucktin tries to answer Charlie’s questions. When Charlie asks what a half-caste is, Wes gives him books.
In the writings of Clugston, Richard Wilbur is an American poet where his works are insightful and arranged in a way that shows expression of his emotions and moral values (2010, p. 218). Richard Wilbur has written a poem named “Boy at the Window.” Wilbur was enlightened by his son while looking out the window at the snow man he built. He expresses that poetry is a response to everyday life while watching the feeling and thoughts of his son. It induced innocent distress from his son that Wilbur could connect to and was able to create a poem. One major similarity there is in poem as well as short stories feelings and visions that have come from real life experience or knowing about others and their life whether it is written as fiction or non-fiction.
While the relationship between him and Roderick is never fully explained, the reader does learn that they were boyhood friends. That Usher writes to the Narrator, urging him to give him company in his time of distress, suggests the close rapport between the two men. But Poe's story is a chronicle of both distancing and identification. In other words, the Narrator seems to remove himself spiritually from Usher, terrified of his house, his illness, his appearance, but as the narrative progresses he cannot help but be drawn into Usher's twisted world. Alas, family (if not incest) trumps friendship at the end, when Usher and Madeline are reunited and the Narrator is cast off on his own into the raging storm.
Choose a poem which describes an animal or a place or an event in an effective way. Briefly state what is being described and go on to show how the techniques used in the poem make the description effective. A poem that describes an event in an effective way is ‘Mid-Term Break’ by Seamus Heaney. In this poem, Heaney describes a personal tragedy that he encountered when he was a young boy. He was sent home from his boarding school and when he returns home he is greeted with strangers saying they were sorry for his trouble.
Dickens uses a variety of language skills to make characters seem so realistic. He creates an effect immediately by writing in first person narrative. It lets the reader interpret the story through the eyes of a young boy, Pip says ‘and there sat the strangest lady I had ever seen or shall ever see’ this lets us see what Pip is seeing, and this helps us relate to his emotions. We also see the story through the perspective of an adult, looking back at his childhood. In the beginning of the book, Pip gives us an image that he’s a friendly, kind, chubby boy who helps out Magwitch.