“It Can’t be Helped” by Jeanne Wakatsuki and “Typhoid Fever” by Frank McCourt have many similarities. Jeanne Wakatsuki was born in California in 1934. She lived there until 1942 when Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 and she and her family were evacuated. Frank McCourt was born in 1930 in Brooklyn‚ NY. During the great depression‚ his family moved back to Ireland‚ where his family sank deeper into poverty. He nearly died of typhoid fever when he was 11. The purpose of the stories these people
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Thelma and Louise (1991) The story includes the journey of two best friends who find comfort in each from their dreary and mundane domesticated lives. The need for escape and freedom is introduced right from the beginning when Thelma has to ask her husband to go away for the week. The desire for pleasure and escapism overwhelms them when they are away from the domestic sphere. They feel as if something is missing and want to have time by themselves to really figure out what that is. Thelma
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American Experience Freedom Rider “Hallelujah I’m a traveling” This line out of a song sang by travelers indicates how much joy traveling is‚ how much joy a ride through the country side‚ from one place to another‚ can be it gives the people freedom‚ to go places‚ to experience new things and not be bound to just one place anymore. It should have been an equally enjoyable experience to everybody‚ but when traveling with public transportation first became popular‚ it did not live up to those
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eyeballs vexed and tired‚ Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea; O ye! whose ears are dinn’d with uproar rude‚ Or fed too much with cloying melody‚ – Sit ye near some old cavern’s mouth‚ and brood Until ye start‚ as if the sea-nymphs quired! This poem speaks about the solace and freedom that can be found in nature. The sea is the embodiment of nature here‚ and is presented in great contrast to the artificiality of urban life. As a Romantic‚ Keats was inclined to reject the new realities of the Industrial
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is primarily their decision to go to war if that is what they believe in and fight for their country thinking that they’re helping to achieve dominance for their belief. The poem‚ Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen effectively conveys his message about war through poetic technique and language. This enhances the poems quality‚ showing the pointlessness of war‚ the injustice of it and the idealistic enthusiasm of believing in the idea. "My friend‚ you would not tell with such high zest" indicates
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The poem‚ “Fueled‚” by Marcie Hans and the poem‚ “Machines‚” by Daniel Whitehead Hicky are able to be compared and contrasted due to many poetic devices. These poems share many similarities‚ the most important being their theme. This is the idea that man-made things are neither more important nor exciting than things from nature. This message is conveyed through comparison and contrast within the poems beginning with man-made things. The tone also changes in both poems‚ which begin as harsh‚ but
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statements “I am whole” in Morales poem verses “…and feeling like you’re not finished” in Smith’s poem. Both statements in these poems are strong‚ stating a completion of a human soul and both poems are in agreement that race is a part of the completion to the human soul. Levins Morales’ poem explains what it is really like to be of mixed race in America. Smith’s poem gives a deep‚ more individual approach of what it is like to be a black girl. Race is a background for both poems. Race and ethnicity have
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In the second and fourth lines Owen uses half rhyme throughout his poem such as once and France. This poem is again related to the concept of the pity of war‚ as the soldiers are hoping that with all of the suns powers that it will kindly awaken the fallen soldier. In this poem compared to many of Owen’s other poetry‚ there isn’t as many techniques used but the use of the techniques in Futility are strong and meaningful
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"The Tiger" is one of the most beautiful descriptive animal poems that was ever written. The poet describes the tiger as a powerful and almost immortal being. "What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" He compares the creator of this wild beast with the creator of the innocent lamb. "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" The poet describes the tiger as a living‚ breathing fire that walks brightly through the forest. "Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright‚ in the forests of the night." He
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girl. The structure in the poem illustrates the freedom of youth and playfulness. The poem is written in free verse to emphasize the significance of her as being free as she fantasizes about being unstoppable and not being ordinary. In lines 23 and 24‚ the enjambments are crucial to the whole liberal tone of the poem. Through the rhetorical question‚ “[c]an it be there was only one summer that I was ten?”
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