The first few pages of the book was filled with imagery, the author gave vivid descriptions of Alabama. I really liked the first person narration because it gave a lot of details and emotions as the author experienced them. Rick Bragg the author and protagonist of this novel, starts the story with his feelings towards his father who is dying. These passages provided background information and history about his father. A theme that I noticed a lot in this book was sacrifice, Margaret Bragg, a mother of three, abandoned by her husband tried to raise the kids. I admired Margaret Bragg because she was selfless and caring. Margaret Bragg waited till the boys finished their meals to eat the leftovers, went without a new pair of shoes or clothes so …show more content…
While his father on the other hand, always managed to look good and show pride. I think Rick admired his mother and feared of becoming like his father. Rick's childhood always depended on others, when his dad abandoned them they always had family- aunts, uncles, and grandparents at their aid. This showed me the value of family but made me wonder what would have happened if they didn’t have a family to rely on? Rick was thankful and lived a happy life despite being poor, until one of his girlfriend breaks up with him for being poor, then he starts to see the truth and realize that even if he doesn’t think or show himself as the poor the truth is that he is. He makes a point and says that being poor might not seem that bad or the job they do for money might not seem bad to others who have never experienced poverty. I found this novel to be historically accurate and gave a depiction what life must have been during that time period. This novel revealed the conditions and social status during the civil rights movement. Rick constantly refers to how his mother wore clothes like the blacks and worked in cotton plantations which were known to be a black person’s
the commander of the Rebel army, General Robert E Lee. General Lee is skeptical too of
The fourth Chapter of Estella Blackburn’s non fiction novel Broken lives “A Fathers Influence”, exposes readers to Eric Edgar Cooke and John Button’s time of adolescence. The chapter juxtaposes the two main characters too provide the reader with character analyses so later they may make judgment on the verdict. The chapter includes accounts of the crimes and punishments that Cooke contended with from 1948 to 1958. Cooke’s psychiatric assessment that he received during one of his first convictions and his life after conviction, marring Sally Lavin. It also exposes John Button’s crime of truancy, and his move from the UK to Australia.
Drifters by Bruce Dawe This poem is about a family that’s always on the move, with no place to settle down for long, hence the poem was titled ‘Drifters’ to describe this family. ‘Drifters’ looks at the members of this family response to frequently change and how it has affected them. This poem is told in third person narration in a conversational tone. This gives the feeling as if someone who knows this family is telling the responder the situation of this family.
Ron Rash is a phenomenal writer, who in a few conscientious strokes, is able to depict the harsh, impecunious life of the South and make it universally relatable. From a bar guitarist who “...lost (his) teaching job, lost(his) wife, and lost (his) child…” to a farmer whose land “ was all rock and slant. You couldn’t grow a toenail…” Rash uses his observational, rich knowledge of the south to address both the good and bad of the world without a mere suggestion to the reader to empathize the protagonists as neither do they for themselves.
In the short story “Being There”, by Jerzy Kosinski, there are multiple examples of satire that are displayed throughout both the book and the movie. A few of them are: media, death, politics, and racism. The satire of the media was very similar in the book and the movie. Media played a big role in society and still does to this day.
Tuesdays with Morrie is an inspiring tale in which Mitch, a young man struggling with the concept of a meaningful life is given a second chance, and a new outlook on life when he meets his past teacher, Morrie. They quickly renew the relationship they once possessed in college. Morrie becomes Mitch’s mentor, role model and friend once again. This time around, however, the lessons are on subjects such as life, love, and culture.
The poem “We’re not trucking around” (2003) by Samuel Wagan Watson presents the important idea about the marginalization of Aboriginal culture and the idea that Aboriginals do not try to mimic the ‘Invaders’. These ideas represent an aboriginal perspective on Australian national identity which explores the marginalization of aboriginal culture and the mistreatment of Aboriginals in Australia. Watson reinforces his arguments with poetic techniques including the creation of an atmosphere, use of dialect and empathy. The composer uses roads and, in particular, trucks as examples of his ideas.
The author of the story Alabama Moon did this because they wanted to make the story have all of those things. The author wanted to make it in first person because they wanted the main character to tell the story through their point of view. The author wanted the conflict to go from very much to very little because they wanted to make it interesting. The author made all of those vocabulary words in the story so the reader wouldn’t be too hard but not to easy to where they would get lost too. The author put the story in paragraph form so the reader could read the book easily and follow along like every other book. The author also made all of the textual evidence in the story so the reader could follow along really well and get all the information that they needed to know. That is why the author did all of these things.
One of the main symbols of the story is the setting. It takes place in a normal small town on a nice summer day. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blooming profusely and the grass was richly green." (Jackson 347).This tricks the reader into a disturbingly unaware state,
Cry, the Beloved Country is such a controversial novel that people tend to forget the true meaning and message being presented. Paton’s aim in writing the novel was to present and create awareness of the ongoing conflict within South Africa through his unbiased and objective view. The importance of the story lies within the title, which sheds light on South Africa’s slowly crumbling society and land, for it is the citizens and the land itself which are “crying” for their beloved country as it collapses under the pressures of racism, broken tribes and native exploitation.
It was a beautiful day, when Opal had found her husband shirt that was handing on the back on a chair. It was the last time her wore it. When she came from the funeral and saw the shirt, she stared to cry. She was crying as she had been unable to cry before. Then her children gathered around her and started to calm her down. They were the only reason to go on. She had small four children. Her husband had had a heart condition that could be controlled with medication, but something went wrong. When he had lain down in the yard, he was only forty- one year old. The days had passed without her husband. She knew that she needs to live for her children.
Death is inevitable, yet all people deal with it differently. The poems “I Beg You, Brother: Do Not Die” by Yosano Akiko and “The terrorist, He Watches” by Wislawa Szymborska are about people who are going to die in soon. The impending death that the people in the poems face, is a death known to the speakers soly. The people who face death are unaware of the upcoming destruction. The speakers know the people in the poems will die soon and know it for certainty. Both of the speakers in the poem watch people face this impending death, yet they themselves are not in harms way, this means the speakers are not going to die, but simply watch others die. The speakers have no control over the situations of the people dieing. The lack of control both
“I Have a Rendezvous with Death” written by Alan Seeger works primarily as an expression of differentiating between the conventional view of death, versus the author’s intake. All elements of this poem- rhyme scheme, personification, diction and imagery - work to this effect. With the aid of these elements, the author is able to enlighten his readers that even though foreseeable and capricious, death is not something that we should feared; rather we should come to terms that it is an inevitable part of life and perhaps even anticipate it.
In John Donne’s sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud” death is closely examined and Donne writes about his views on death and his belief that people should not live in fear of death, but embrace it. “Death, Be Not Proud” is a Shakespearean sonnet that consists of three quatrains and one concluding couplet, of which I individually analyzed each quatrain and the couplet to elucidate Donne’s arguments with death. Donne converses with death, and argues that death is not the universal destroyer of life. He elaborates on the conflict with death in each quatrain through the use of imagery, figurative language, and structure. These elements not only increase the power of Donne’s message, but also symbolize the meaning of hope of eternal life as the ultimate escape to death.
W.H. Auden wrote the poem, “Funeral Blues”. Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) was born in York, England, and later became and American citizen. Auden was the founder for a generation of English poets, such as C. Day Lewis, and Stephen Spender. Auden’s earlier works were composed of a Marxist outlook with a knowledge of Freudian Psychology. Later works consisted of professing Christianity, and what he considered “increasing conservatism”. In 1946 Auden emigrated and became an American citizen. While in America he composed many verse plays, travel memoirs, and Opera lyrics. His last years of life were spent traveling and collaborating works of influential criticism.