"MOTHER TO SON" OF LANGSTON HUGHES "Mother to Son" of Langston Hughes is my favorite. What the mother in the poem tries to tell her son is that there will be many rough roads that he has to go by in his life but she hopes that he will not give and complete it like his mother. Through the dialect that Hughes used in his poem‚ we can see that the mother was not a well educated woman by the way she talks "there ain’t" (13) and some grammar mistakes. She was living a poor area with "boards torn up"
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one of which is language. “The power of language can evoke an emotion‚ a visual image‚ a complex idea‚ or a simple truth” (FYR: 84). Language is used daily in our lives‚ and therefore plays a significant role in shaping our identity. The narrative “Mother Tongue” depicts the variations of the English language‚ and the nature of talk. Amy Tan also shares the story of her mother’s “broken” English and how this limited her perception of hers mother’s communication with others. Language can be developed
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this puzzle. “Mrs. Green told me her mother is coming to visit her‚ and she is going to stay a week. How can she stay if she is going? How can she go if she is staying?” I could not explain‚ because never before had I realized that “going” may have nothing to do with the verb “to go‚” though the latter has its own present participle which seems identical. This other “going” deals only with the future: I am going to see this matter through; he is going to lose his job; she is going to be tired out.
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Life without someone who loves us is like an empty world. All the people in the world have their own person who always takes care of them. So do I my mother. Her hair is as dark as a raven’s wing‚ ripple down to her shoulders like a waterfall. Her skin the color beige‚ like the dunes of the Sahara‚ flawlessly smooth before the rippling winds. Never is she loud; her low-keyed silky voice flows from her like a warm breeze against the skin‚ chasing away any chill and enclosing the listener with
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The poem “Mothers” by Nikki Giovanni is about two states of mind. An adult dealing with the ups and downs of everyday life and a concerned child. This is shown by the use of opposite words. “Dark-light” and “pleasantries and unpleasantries.” Being a child‚ Nikki was trying to make sense of what was happening around her. She sees her mother sitting in a chair in a dark room upset her. Nikki is apparently a frightened child. The wetting of the bed confirms her fear. She wrote about and absent father
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Single Mothers Many women take for granted the freedoms that they have today. Some have forgotten what their own mothers and grandmothers went through. Women have started to receive many of the same rights that men do in the work place and at home. At home many women find it more socially acceptable to be single with a child. No longer does society look down on this. This relatively new sense of feminism has helped cause the growing trend of single mothers. With divorce on the rise‚ the dilemma
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team and scoring goals. Jess mother‚ who hates football‚ interrupts her and instructs her to go shopping with her sister Pinky‚ who is engaged and gets married soon. While Pinky is searching for her perfect sari for the wedding‚ she and Jess meet their cousins Monica‚ Bubbly and Meena. After chatting a bit they also face Tony‚ the best friend of Jess. Finally Pinky finds the dress she wants and they drive home‚ recognizing they forgot to do some errands for their mother. After Jess decides to do her
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On 3rd August 2009‚ Monday‚ the swine flu death of Riya Sheikh‚ a fourteen year old school student from Pune’s Camp area shocked Pune and the entire country. It was the first case of swine flu death in India. Till now we were casual about swine flu epidemic spreading in Western countries. Even occassional detection of swine flu in India did not panic us. Ria’s death only made us aware that swine flu virus can be contacted locally and is fatal. After her death panic gripped not only Pune but the
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In the short stories of Mother Tongue by Amy Tan and Public and Private Language by Richard Rodriquez‚ both essays describe an influence on the English language and what impact they had while coping with that language. For Amy tan in Mother Tongue‚ she roots the common source for who had what kind of impact on her learning of that language. In Public and Private Language‚ Richard Rodriguez establishes a view point on why it is important to be given a public identity. Both stories come together to
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Devante Withers AP Literature Mrs. Choate 10/16/12 Mary Freeman’s “The Revolt of ‘Mother‚”’ can be described as local color or regional literature. Local color or regional literature can be described as fiction that focuses on the characters‚ dialect‚ customs‚ topography‚ and other features particular to a region. “(Campbell). She reflects this type of literature through the characters‚ setting‚ and theme. Regionalism focuses on the formal an informal‚analyzing the attitudes characters
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