Where There's A Wall Analysis

Compare and contract ‘Where there’s a wall’ and ‘Paxis’

What will you do when you meet a wall that block your way? There are only two ways, either finding a way to go through the wall or staying still. In fact, this is life, when a barrier cut down the road, there comes to two choices, taking an action or doing nothing. In poems ‘where there’s a wall’ by Joy Kogawa and ‘Paxis’ by Sharon. They both talk about the ‘walls’ in their life. On the one hand, in ‘where there’s a wall’ Joy tells about her experience inside the internment camp where there is no freedom. On the other hand, Sharon in ‘Paxis’ observes how human being act meaninglessly under control of outside world. He expresses his sorry and wants to encourage people to fight their own future. Joy and Sharon try to tell people, life can be full

There will come different problems and difficulties that keep him or her from moving on. According to two poems, two main characters are facing difficulties in their life. For example, the little girl in ‘where there’s a wall’ is sent to Japanese- Canadian internment camp. She loses her freedom just because she is a Japanese- Canadian. She remembers ‘there are zeppelin, helicopter, rockets, bombs, battering rams, armies with trumpets whose all at once blast shatter.’ Inside the wall, she doesn’t see or know anything. However, she can hear the bombing, killing and crying from the war. She and other Japanese are forced to do things they don’t want to. Her life is stopped by this wall. Likewise, in ‘Paixis ’, the author observes human behavior. He describes ‘us creature/ weeping in the abettor. Only make noise and do, not transform a single fact.’ These obstacles like cages, many people are locked down and lose their future. Without a doubt, difficulties can occur in anyone’s life in any time and any place. It’s impossible to avoid them. All people can do is to accept the