A Comparison Of Killing My Son 'And As In The Beginning'

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Watching a loved one suffer from physical distress can cause intense emotional pain. “As In The Beginning” by Mary di Michele focuses on a daughter’s observation of her father’s pain and suffering due to an accident(a loss of fingers). “Thanks for Not Killing My Son” by Rita Schindler deals with a mother’s emotional letter to her son’s attackers. Each piece of work looks back at a past event that has a profound effect on the writer. There are many similarities which include sarcasm, use of description and a common theme. However, both are presented in a different format as one being a poem and the other being a letter. Both poem and letter are dripping with sarcasm. Sarcasm is evident in the first stanza of the poem where the accident is narrated

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