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The Sticks Poem Analysis
The “Sticks” is an object that the narrator’s father expresses his feelings. He is strict and hard to his kids. When the narrator’s mom passed, the father change the way he decorate the “sticks”. He has too much ego that he can’t apologize to his children instead he wrote his message to the sticks for everybody how sorry he was for all the things that he did wrong to the people…it’s the pride that holding him to talk.

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