The poem “Making Sarah Cry” and the play “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” have a similar theme of being different. Even though they have the same theme, they show it different ways. For instance, the characters have a different influence on others. The theme in “Making Sarah Cry” is being different. This is the theme because in the poem, it said Sarah was not like the rest, she was slow and not smart. Sarah wasn’t accepted by the boy and his friends. They made fun of the faces she made, the way she stomped her feet, and the stutter when she spoke. Another reason why the theme is being different is because when the boy got hurt they treated him differently. They called him a freak and asked “where he got the ugly mask” because of his limp and jagged scar across his face. When he got hit by the car and people started treating him differently, he didn’t like it. …show more content…
Now that people are treating him like he treated Sarah, he rethinks the choices that he has made. In the poem it says “for at last he knew the difference, between what’s right and wrong. And Sarah didn’t seem so weird, in his understanding eyes”. In this part, he finally realizes that teasing Sarah and making fun of her, because she was different, was not right. The theme in “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” is being different. For instance, most of the white people don’t like that African Americans are going to go to their school. This shows that the theme is being different because the white people don’t like the African Americans because they have different colored skin. Another reason why the theme is being different is because when Kenny and Byron sit at the lunch counter to order lunch, the waitress gives them a hard time for sitting there.
In the play the waitress says “You go around back if you want something to eat.” Byron didn’t understand this because they live in a place where that doesn’t usually happen. The waitress also says “Boy, you better get off that seat. Don’t make me call the cops and have you arrested.” When they leave Byron realizes that that was wrong. They treated them differently because of their skin color. Both “Making Sarah Cry” and “The Watson’s Go to Birmingham” show the same theme of being different but they have a different effect on society. In “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah and the boy gets teased and picked on and when Sarah finally sticks up for herself and the bot the other kids realize that that was wrong. In “The Watson’s Go to Birmingham” they get bullied and discriminated. They had to live with that and back then the United States were like that and nobody could do anything about it. That is why they have a different affect on
society. Both pieces of text show the theme of being different really well but “The Watson’s Go to Birmingham” has more of an effect on society. In “The Watson’s Go to Birmingham” they show the theme in a more convincing way. Because of them being different they have had to suffer their whole life. They had to fight for their rights and they would get shot at, put in jail, and even sprayed with tear gas. This shows that “The Watson’s Go to Birmingham” shows the theme of being different in a more convincing way than “Making Sarah Cry”.
One example of the theme occurs when the author first introduces the story. “But the summer I was 9 years old, the town I had always loved morphed into a beautifully heartbreaking and complicated place.” (pg. 1). The author is saying that the year she turned nine, she found out something about her town that broke her heart and changed the way she saw it. This quote is important because it supports the theme. It shows that now she is older she has learned something about her town that made her wiser than when she was younger. She is now more informed because the new information changed her and caused her to begin to mature.
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Both poems are set in the past, and both fathers are manual labourers, which the poets admired as a child. Both poems indicate intense change in their fathers lives, that affected the poet in a drastic way. Role reversal between father and son is evident, and a change of emotion is present. These are some of the re-occurring themes in both poems. Both poems in effect deal with the loss of a loved one; whether it be physically or mentally.
Kim Addonizio’s “First Poem for You” portrays a speaker who contemplates the state of their romantic relationship though reflections of their partner’s tattoos. Addressing their partner, the speaker ambivalence towards the merits of the relationship, the speaker unhappily remains with their partner. Through the usage of contrasting visual and kinesthetic imagery, the speaker revels the reasons of their inability to embrace the relationship and showcases the extent of their paralysis. Exploring this theme, the poem discusses how inner conflicts can be powerful paralyzers.
Both authors use figurative language to help develop sensory details. In the poem It states, “And I sunned it with my smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.” As the author explains how the character is feeling, the reader can create a specific image in there head based on the details that is given throughout the poem. Specifically this piece of evidence shows the narrator growing more angry and having more rage. In the short story ” it states, “We are below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle among bones.” From this piece of text evidence the reader can sense the cold dark emotion that is trying to be formed. Also this excerpt shows the conflict that is about to become and the revenge that is about to take place. By the story and the poem using sensory details, they both share many comparisons.
The most preeminent quality of Sonia Sanchez “Ballad” remains the tone of the poem, which paints a didactic image. Sanchez is trying to tell this young people that we know nix about love as well as she is told old for it. In an unclear setting, the poem depicts a nameless young women and Sanchez engaged in a conversation about love. This poem dramatizes the classic conflict between old and young. Every old person believes they know more then any young person, all based on the fact that they have been here longer then all of us. The narrative voice establishes a tone of a intellectual understanding of love unraveling to the young women, what she comprehends to love is in fact not.
These pieces, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” and “The Minister’s Black Veil” have many differences such as the time they were written but many similarities as well. Both of main characters in this story are very unhappy people. Miss Baker is unhappy because all the men that she trusted in slept with her and then forsook her. Rev. Hooper’s unhappiness stems from his religion. The Law condemns!
In Drea Knufken’s essay entitled “Help, We’re Drowning!: Please Pay Attention to Our Disaster,” the horrific Colorado flood is experienced and the reactions of worldly citizens are examined (510-512). The author’s tone for this formal essay seems to be quite reflective, shifting to a tone of frustration and even disappointment. Knufken has a reflective tone especially during the first few paragraphs of the essay. According to Drea Knufken, a freelance writer, ghostwriter and editor, “when many of my out-of-town friends, family and colleagues reacted to the flood with a torrent of indifference, I realized something. As a society, we’ve acquired an immunity to crisis. We scan through headlines without understanding how stories impact people,
Both stories show the characters inequality with their lives as women bound to a society that discriminates women. The two stories were composed in different time frames of the women’s rights movement; it reveals to the readers, that society was not quite there in the fair treatment towards the mothers, daughters, and wives of United States in either era. Inequality is the antagonist that both authors created for the characters. Those experiences might have helped that change in mankind to carve a path for true equality among men and women.
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...re many similarities when it comes to technique, characterization, themes, and ideologies based on the author's own beliefs and life experiences. However, we also see that it appears the author herself often struggles with the issue of being herself and expressing her own individuality, or obeying the rules, regulations and mores of a society into which she was born an innocent child, one who by nature of her sex was deemed inferior to men who controlled the definition of the norms. We see this kind of environment as repressive and responsible for abnormal psyches in the plots of many of her works.
Firstly, the most important symbol are the tapes which is what the story revolves around. First of all, they are a helped develop the theme since they symbolize the theme itself within the novel. They develop the theme because their purpose was to tell 13 different reasons why Hannah killed herself; which is practically how 13 different people have impacted her life. For example, on Cassette 1:Side 8 she tells the story of how Alex Standoll made a difference in her life. He made the "hot/not list" as a joke without knowing how it would affect Hannah's life. He thought of it as a joke yet it lead to multiple results that changed Hannah's life, such as creating conflict with Jessica. This show the theme because it is another example where one did not consider the consequences for their actions. Alex did not seem to think about how foolish life can create so much conflict but it did. As a result of it, the list had lead to many bad effects on Hannah even if it was portrayed as a joke. Another way Asher establishes the theme is by making an effect towards the 13 who were on the tapes. In Clay's case, he was dreadful the next morning. All he could think about are the
Both stories give off an unexpected twist, each woman helps to make each title into an object of either denial or exception. Even though both stories have great similarities, the authors' individual points of view resulted into the concerning of their surroundings. In the end of both stories, the items that they psychologically and then physically create take over the wife and Emily, their minds became weak that quickly took over them completely. Soon finalizing their mental and/or physical illness to their own time of death.
Did I Miss Anything? is a poem written by a Canadian poet and academic Tom Wayman. Being a teacher, he creates a piece of literature, where he considers the answers given by a teacher on one and the same question asked by a student, who frequently misses a class. So, there are two speakers present in it – a teacher and a student. The first one is fully presented in the poem and the second one exists only in the title of it. The speakers immediately place the reader in the appropriate setting, where the actions of a poem take place – a regular classroom. Moreover, the speakers unfolds the main theme of the poem – a hardship of being a teacher, the importance of education and laziness, indifference and careless attitudes of a student towards studying.
The writings of both the poets strictly tend to focus on the issues concerning racism, ethnicity, prejudice; slavery, inner struggles, and the pursuit of achieve freedom and equality in the society. Both Nadine Gordimer and Patricia Smith are regarded as two of the most renowned contributors to this field of literature. When reading both pieces of literature I noticed a few differences to the story as well. One of the differences was in the poem “what it’s like to be a black girl” the main character was coping with growing up and dealing with all the struggles that being a young black girl goes through. With