In the poem, “The Red Hat”, by author Rachel Hadas, he describes the emotional endeavor that a parent undergoes when it is time to let their child become their own person. The poem to me symbolizes the meaning of growing up and finding our own path. The process of breaking the child-parent bond is important to the growth and personal finding of a child. The author expresses the emotional battle of letting her son walk alone to school in the quote, “parallel paths part; he goes alone from there”. This quote not only discusses the boy's walk to school, but it symbolizes the son growing up and gaining his own independence by doing so alone. The path he now takes is new and it symbolizes that the son now has his own path to follow. Although his
