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“Marks”: Paragraph Practice.
In Linda Pastan’s poem “Marks”, she uses a controlling metaphor to suggest a mother is like a student by showing us how she feels being judged in a way anyone could understand. For example, the mother is being criticized by her family for her work “an A”, “an incomplete”, “B plus”, “Average” “improve”, and “Pass/Fail”. This shows how it is exasperating to be a mother, what it is to be judged by her husband and children. In the last line, the speaker says “I’m dropping out”, which shows she is sick of all the evaluation from her loved ones. You can infer this by how she shows she is stressed and has a ton of pressure on her, based on her words. By adding that controlling metaphor Linda Pastan allows any reader to understand the hardships of being a mother by comparing the situation to a student's.
(Word Count: 148 words.)
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¨Mystery Skulls- Ghost¨ Annotation.
I believe ¨Ghost¨ by Mystery Skulls is about a person who is depressed and is seeking revenge on another person. I believe this because of these four words in diction ¨Ghost¨ ¨Hate¨ ¨Disappear¨ ¨Guarantee¨ found throughout the song. The words ghost and guarantee aren’t negative as they are but in the context they are used they become negative. The person feels like a ghost so they in turn disappear. they hate someone and then give no guarantee to what they may do to the person. The imagery of “It's alright cause I’m with friends” The effect of this quote is the fact that once I read/hear this line I can picture myself with my friends and/or picture someone else with their friends. The figure of speech ¨And I’m feeling like a ghost¨ because the singer is comparing themselves to a ghost. This gives the effect of the person feeling like they add up to nothing, they feel like they are see through or aren’t tangible in some way. Syntax of this song is ¨And I'm feeling like a ghost And it's what I hate the most 'Cause I'm giving up again And this time (this time, this time)¨ there are no commas or periods anywhere. All there are are apostrophes and parenthesis. This effect makes me think maybe the song is a loop, a never ending loop that is that person’s life. Sound is shown in this line “This time I might just dis-” the effect of this line is that the singer said they might just disappear, and when the suddenly stop.
(Word Count: 266 words)
http://genius.com/Mystery-skulls-ghost-lyrics
http://genius.com/17AmandaBuchanan
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In my imagination Anatole and I talk in English, though in real life he mostly speaks Kikongo to his schoolboys. His Kikongo accent is different from everyone else's-- even I can hear that. He pulls his mouth into broad, exact shapes around his teeth as if he's forever worried about being misunderstood. I think Anatole helps out our family because he is an outsider here too, like us. He can sympathize with our predicament.
(Poisonwood Bible. The Revelation page 144 paragraph 5, towards the bottom of the page.)
(Word Count: 287 words.)
In this small paragraph we see that Leah has an understanding of how Anatole feels in the Congo. Being an outsider to the Congolese people herself. Leah also daydreams about Anatole, which is more explained in a later page, which shows she is growing up in a sense of becoming a young woman. I believe the daydreaming of boys in the Congo is foreshadowing to an event of maybe she will become the wife of a Congolese man. Of course I maybe wrong because I have a wild imagination, this may not even be foreshadowing.
Yet Leah knows how Anatole feels and knows why he does certain things. She knows he uses certain speaking gestures, that of making broad exact movements. She knows that he does this because he doesn’t want to be misheard. She knows quite a bit about Anatole and what he does. Maybe this is because she spends a lot of time with him, maybe because she has that understanding of his feelings.
If my foreshadowing is correct then I believe that the dreams/daydreams about Congolese males means she will be marrying someone from the Congo. She daydreams about talking with Anatole and she compares their feelings. Then later on in the chapter she has a dream that has Anatole, even though his features have been mixed with Nelson’s, where we see she is blossoming into a young woman. These lead me to suspect that maybe she is realizing she likes males and the hope chest leads me to think more so that this chapter is full of foreshadowing.
Then again I could be wrong, it could just be talking about how the girls are growing up without any foreshadowing to later events.
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My collage for the poem “Oh, Oh”.
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Introduction To Poetry.
He asks us to take a poem
and give it life
like a deity from above
or hold its voice in our hearts.
We say “talk poem, speak
and show us the way”,
or “whisper your secrets
and we’ll keep them safe”.
We want him to walk
across its field of gold
breathing in its subconscious emotions.
But all he wants to do
is say we’re refractory
giving no thought to this poor poem’s voice.
He begins to rebuke us forcing us
to read out what it really means.
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I saw the chance and had to take it. (the first post didn't upload my made meme with the grey parrot on the bike whoops.) I felt the need to make more memes and here they are. mrrobinsonchs
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Once in a great while we just have to protect her. Even back when we were very young
I remember running to throw my arms around Mother's knees when he regaled her with words and worse, for curtains unclosed or slips showing--the sins of womanhood.
We could see clearly that all grown-ups aren't equally immune to damage.
(The Poisonwood Bible. Genesis, page 68 paragraph 25, in the middle of the page first sentence.)
(Word Count: 464 words)
Through the duration of this chapter Leah tells us how the mother is, how she feels for her mother, and how her mother can get her in trouble when not meaning to. Yet in this particular passage she seems to be honest about wanting to protect her mother. How even though she loves her father more, obviously, she feels the need to protect her from " when he regaled her with words and worse". Showing even she feels empathy for her mother. Why? She said it herself her fathers her favorite, why does she feel obligated to protect her every once in a while?
I feel maybe that mother daughter connection is the key, like her brain just naturally thinks "Oh she's my mother, I love her, and must therefor protect her". I can't really understand this thought though, my ties with my mother are all cut, she cut them, I'd never protect her. So maybe that's why she protects her mother, because she understands the hardships and the "sins of womanhood".
On that subject, I'm sure she was too young to understand what was going on, was it just impulse to rush to her mother as she was being yelled at? If her mother was yelling at her father would she do the same for him? Would the father even need to be "protected"? The world they lived in was a cruel natured one to the feminine gender. The world was teeming in sexism and racism, not that Leah or her sisters would much understand the racist part. They were brought up to know that woman had a place, and that it was wrong to want more than what you had.
Leah, would you possibly protect your father? Do you think he needs protection? Why don't you stand on your mothers side more often? Are you too afraid of your father, or too respectful that you wouldn't protect your mother if not a dire emergency to do so? How do your other sisters feel about protecting either parent?
I believe she'd protect her father if need be, maybe even if he didn't need it. Also maybe she is too respectful or cares for him more than the mother to protect her more often. I believe she does only protect the mother when need be, "Once in a great while we just have to protect her". I feel Ruth May is too naive to really pick a side, Rachel maybe would pick her mom to protect more than her father. Adah, oh Adah is a different story. Adah seems so far off in her own world that maybe given the chance would leave, never wanting to protect either parent when need be.
I wonder what the Poisonwood Bible has in store for the next book...
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“ But here nobody stares at Adah except just a little because she’s white. Nobody cares that she’s bad on one whole side because they’ve all got their own handicap children or a mama with no feet, or their eye put out. When you take a look out the door, why, there goes somebody with something missing off of them and not even embarrassed of it.”
(The Poisonwood Bible. Genesis, page 53, paragraph 11 starting at on the first line, second sentence.)
(Word Count: 351 words.)
As this passage states hardly any of the attention is on Adah. I feel this is foreshadowing a future event where because people hardly notice her she has to do a certain job. Ruth May refers to Adah as handicapped like other peoples children. “Nobody cares… because they’ve all got their own handicap children.”
This makes me think that because Adah has something in common with the local Congolese people that this will allow the family, maybe not Nathan the father, understand them better as human beings.
The writer uses the element of image to tell how the Congolese people have their own problems and work through them, even if they affect the rest of their lives. I feel this passage is significant because it, in my eyes, presents foreshadowing.
I feel that based on what I’ve read up till now has shown little liking of Nathan over other people. Leah seems to be devoted to being with him as his daughter, Ruth May being a closed minded child and being naive she wouldn’t quite understand much of her own because she stills looks up to her parents. Orleeana and Rachel seem to have spats and differences but they don’t detest him. Adah has been too quiet to know exactly how she feels for each person, but truth be known from reading you can sure tell she’s not fond of her family.
By knowing how the family feels for each thing individually would give more knowledge on what may be to come in the story. The passage above gives a, maybe, small hint to what could be in store for Adah due to her being handicapped. Maybe it’s Adah who brings the line between the Congolese people and the Price family together, maybe she has to do something she may not want to because of any unknown reason as of this moment.
Maybe I’m just reading too much into it. Nevertheless I stand by that this small thing with comparing Adah to the Congolese people and their problems is foreshadowing for a later event.
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