Many Struggles of Life
Life requires mental effort and not everything in life is easy. In first grade I switched schools and experienced some issues. Although serious problems didn’t arise until sixth and seventh grade. Many girls in my grade only cared about being popular and in the meantime bullied other girls. It was a period when everyone started creating social media accounts and I decided to follow that trend. The downside of having my account was that one girl in specific was extremely condescending and wrote messages that constantly reduced my confidence. I hid my distress for around six months until I couldn’t withhold it any longer. I broke down almost every day after school and no longer wanted to go because I lost so many friends due to popularity. I struggled to feel like I “fit in” and to find true friends, relating to the themes of the poems “What is Broken is What God Blesses” and “America”. While the poems “America” and “What is Broken is What God Blesses” both show the authors struggle to find their place, the author of “America” talks about finding their position in society, while “What is Broken is What God blesses” reflects on finding their guidance in God’s …show more content…
Richard Blanco repeats certain words such as pork in stanza two to get across the idea that although his family didn’t have ample amounts of money their cultural tradition of pork followed them to America after they immigrated. Showing they didn’t transition to America’s customs and felt as though they didn’t resemble the rest of the country but that they likely wanted to. In stanza four he makes an allusion to the America the beautiful saying “the purple mountains of majesty”, trying to explain the story of pilgrims to his abuelita making the point they should eat Turkey for thanksgiving like the rest of the
Life requires mental effort and not everything in life is easy. In first grade I switched schools and experienced some issues. Although serious problems didn’t arise until sixth and seventh grade. Many girls in my grade only cared about being popular and in the meantime bullied other girls. It was a period when everyone started creating social media accounts and I decided to follow that trend. The downside of having my account was that one girl in specific was extremely condescending and wrote messages that constantly reduced my confidence. I hid my distress for around six months until I couldn’t withhold it any longer. I broke down almost every day after school and no longer wanted to go because I lost so many friends due to popularity. I struggled to feel like I “fit in” and to find true friends, relating to the themes of the poems “What is Broken is What God Blesses” and “America”. While the poems “America” and “What is Broken is What God Blesses” both show the authors struggle to find their place, the author of “America” talks about finding their position in society, while “What is Broken is What God blesses” reflects on finding their guidance in God’s …show more content…
Richard Blanco repeats certain words such as pork in stanza two to get across the idea that although his family didn’t have ample amounts of money their cultural tradition of pork followed them to America after they immigrated. Showing they didn’t transition to America’s customs and felt as though they didn’t resemble the rest of the country but that they likely wanted to. In stanza four he makes an allusion to the America the beautiful saying “the purple mountains of majesty”, trying to explain the story of pilgrims to his abuelita making the point they should eat Turkey for thanksgiving like the rest of the