Everyone has felt like they have no control over what happens around them, this poem is the embodiment of that feeling. This poem voices that feeling in four stanzas that cover a period of years in this child’s life. This de-evolution is shown through his poems, his paper type, awards for the poems, and the changes in his sister. The poem’s name, “A Person, A Paper, A Promise”, tells you a person will change with the paper, but the promise should not. It starts with him as an innocent child and ends with the, now grown child, taking his own life.
In the second and third stanza you notice the decline in the child’s mental health, his control in his surroundings, and his overall happiness. His paper type shifts from the “child” paper
In the second and third stanza you notice the decline in the child’s mental health, his control in his surroundings, and his overall happiness. His paper type shifts from the “child” paper