Comparing A Barred Owl And The History Teacher

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The poems “A Barred Owl” and “The History Teacher” both involve an adult sugarcoating the truth to children to preserve their innocence. The poems manipulate the truth as if to protect their children. The themes of these poems are polar opposite compared to The Glass Castle. Rex Walls and his wife do no such things as to sugarcoat the truth to his children, rather, both parents are blunt with their kids. In The Glass Castle, the author talks about how her parents made it clear that Santa did not exist because they did not want to decide them. “I never believed in Santa Claus. None of us kids did. Mom and Dad refused to let us. They told us all about how other kids were decided by their parents” (pg. 39). Additionally while Jeanette

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