Edwidge Danticat's Krak ! Literary Analysis

Posterity is the survival of families through their children. In the book Krik? Krak!, author Edwidge Danticat uses several fictional short stories to showcase the daily struggles of Haitians. In her novel, the hope in future generations helps Haitians endure hardship.

What gives someone hope in a world of death and despair? Is it a mother, or a child? Can the generations of your family give hope in a world of darkness? Edwidge Danticat, author of, Krik? Krak!, answers this.

In the poem What Shall He Tell That Son by Carl Sandburg, the author is imparting advice onto his son about the contradictory nature that is present in the world by using figurative language, apprising his son through the poem by giving him instructions on how to live life. In the poem, Sandburg is trying to relay the importance of being not only robust, but pliable as well, as both are necessary in life. He is conveying contrasting wisdom by informing his son that life is hard, so he in turn must be a rock, be resilient like steel, but that life is also soft loam and that his son must go easy and be gentle, so that both might serve him. Sandburg is also saying that desire and a rich soft wanting count in life, but that the want of too much

The quote I think is strong is 'Life for me isn't no crystal stair. So boy don't you turn back now.' This quote is strong to me by the mother telling the son to not turn back and keep moving forward. It's personal to me. I know that the mother was the author by the actual title 'Mother to Son.'

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try,” said Alexander the Great, a past king of an ancient Greek kingdom. In compliance with this powerful quote, are the life stories of Ernie Feld and Werner Klemke. Upon reading the articles of which describe their experiences, one may simply perceive the relationship both men have to World War II. It is evident, however, that there is an underlying message that persists to become known. Both Ernie Feld and Werner Klemke are unarguably representations of the truth that nothing is unattainable to those who believe they can achieve the impossible.

Comparative Poetry Essay In this analysis I will be comparing the poems "War Photographer" by Carol Ann Duffy, "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare and "Remember" by Christin Rossetti. I have picked the theme death and I am going to show how the poems relate to death. These poems show us how other people feel and live, reading these poems help people understand death much more in different ways.

“Those Winter Sundays,” is a poem, published in 1966, the author is Robert Hayden. The poem, in fifteen lines, recounts the memory of a person childhood. The speaker remembers the early morning events that took place and how much those events portrayed his father’s love for him. The man realizes that as a child, he failed to appreciate the hard work his father did in order to provide him with the necessities, like a roof over his head, warm place for him to sleep, and some small additional benefits too at times. The theme of the poem is sad, and lonely.

According to Leigh Hunt who wrote “An Essay on the Desirableness of the Cultivating Sonnet” in The Book of the Sonnet a sonnet has the ability to arouse different moods and emotions. She claims say that you can laugh and lament in a sonnet. She goes on to say that one can narrate or describe, can rebuke, admire and even pray in a sonnet. In the 14 line sonnet “Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers” by Elizabeth Barret Browning the speaker opens up by introducing us to an image of a garden full of beautiful flowers.

The poet illustrates the anguish he experienced upon realizing that to sprint towards “selfhood”, his child would ‘walk way’ from him by likening it to physical pain. Lewis compares his son’s act of “walking away” from him, his father, to “a satellite/wrenched from its orbit”. The star or planet about which the satellite revolves around is the heart of its universe, the same way parents are, in their child’s mind, the centre of their existence. This simile depicts children’s dependence on their parents, who keep them sheltered in an orbit which stops them from “drifting away”. The use of the verb ‘wrenched’ indicates a painful separation.

Read "Not Much, Just Chillin ': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers" and answer the following Text Dependent Questions:1. Summarize this excerpt in three or four sentences. (RI.7.2) Middle School is a humiliating time for most people. "Nobody is immune...".

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the dystopian world that people live in is burning books. Based on how the rules are being followed in the story, it is proven that it is good to challenge the rules because some rules cause harm to others. “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” As it shown here, instead of putting out fires, fire men start the fire.