1. Lennie held his closed hand away from George’s direction. “It’s on’y a mouse‚ George.”“A mouse? A live mouse?”“Uh-uh. Jus’ a dead mouse‚ George. I didn’ kill it. Honest! I found it. I found it dead.” (pg. 5)2. George said “Ya know‚ Lennie‚ I’m scared I’m gonna tangle with that bastard myself. I hate his guts. Jesus Christ! Come on. They won’t be a damn thing to eat.” (pg. 37)3. “Gotta bad gut ache‚” said Candy. “Them God damn turnips give it to me. I knowed they was going to before I ever eat
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Analysis of “Ballad of Birmingham” In the “Ballad of Birmingham” Dudley Randall conjures one of the most vivid and vicious chapters from the civil rights movement: the bombing of a church in 1963 that wounded twenty-one and cost four girls their lives. This poem is a dialogue between mother and daughter during which ironically the mother forbids the daughter to march for freedom‚ fearing violence will erupt. Instead she gives her daughter permission to sing in the choir at their church. Dudley
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The Ballad of Father Gilligan - W.B. Yeats The poem takes the form of a ballad which was traditionally sung with short and regular stanzas telling a short but profoundly meaningful story. Yeats’s poems are not usually overtly religious‚ but this poem is one. Though Yeats was a protestant who later turned to theosophy and mysticism‚ this poem is Catholic in tone. Also contrary to his practice‚ Yeats uses an Irish word in the poem – ‘mavrone’ which in Irish is ‘mobhron’‚ a cry of grief
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Explications are something everybody has for their self and have for other‚ my explications for my self is to stop getting in trouble and stop having a bad attitude. The sacrifices I will have to make in order to reach my expectations is give up the friends I hang out with and give up my recces and lunch so I can study and get make up worked turned in. One example I expect from myself it to stop getting in trouble because‚ the attitude I have won’t get me far in life because when people tell me
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Is it Just a Wheelbarrow‚ or Something Far More Significant? William Carlos Williams’ “Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem that was written by the late author back in 1923. Eighty years later‚ a parody of Williams’ poem was written by F.J. Bergmann and it was titled “An Apology”. Although Bergmann’s poem was written just to ridicule Williams’ poem‚ the similar form of imagery used in both poems possesses more meaning and is more complex than they might seem at first sight. Also‚ the comparison of the
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A Dill Pickle Explication The short story A Dill Pickle was written by Katherine Mansfield. It takes place sometimes in the early 1900s in some kind of Japanese themed restaurant. There is one main object throughout the story that is important to the plot‚ and that is‚ like the title suggests‚ a dill pickle. The story is about a woman named Vera‚ and a man she has met there that she has not seen in years‚ and one of the stories he tells her is about how one time during lunch while he was in Russia
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The poem of “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall is about a little African American girl who wants to join the march for the civil rights movement‚ but her mother thinks it is too dangerous. Instead‚ the mother advises her daughter to go to church; however‚ the white terrorists kill her daughter by bombing the church. The mother is desperately searching for her daughter and she finds only her daughter’s shoes at the end instead of her body. The form‚ the meaning‚ and settling of the poem help
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Wilkinson English 111 22 July 2013 American-Made Oppression In “Evolution” by Sherman Alexie and “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall both explain the suffrage and hardships their races had to endure. “Evolution” reveals the pressures that denatured the traditional culture of Native Americans. Where “Ballad of Birmingham” conveys a heartfelt message of a victimized child‚ whose mother’s efforts are not adequate to protect her child from racist hatred. Although both poems share a central theme
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he will never have the opportunity to begin again. This decision will be final and will change the path of his life forever. . At this point I would like to address the choice of gender. I will refer to the traveler as him throughout the explication because that is my impression of the traveler due to the fact that he is in the woods alone and because the poem has a more masculine tone than I would expect from a female speaker. Being that I am also male‚ I find myself relating to him and his
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A Rose for Emily Explication “It was a big‚ squarish frame house that had once been white‚ decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies‚ set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left‚ lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores.
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