Critical Analysis of Butterflies Butterflies is a short story written by Roger Dean Kiser. This story is about Kiser as a boy in his orphanage that there were butterflies at. This story is about the world through a child’s eyes and how beautiful things were when you were a kid. Everything is clearer and prettier and everything means more. One thing that means more when you 're a kid is beauty. In this story a little boy is saving a beautiful monarch butterfly and he shoos away any other butterflies, he is saving them from danger. This little boy knows what danger the butterflies are in and is doing everything he can to save them, because they are more beautiful when you 're a child, more pure. In the story Kiser is trying to save these beautiful
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It can teach people not to just go along when they see someone in need. It really can change some people’s life. This story really shows me how being a child can really show you things that you don’t see when you’re a teenager. It shows me how meaningful literary devices are. It also shows me that one thing in your life can be very traumatic at a time but can teach you to help. This story is now one of my favorites, it is brilliantly written with easy to follow words, “Butterflies.”Critical Analysis of …show more content…
He uses understandable language that is easy to follow. To me, this text is all about Kiser’s view of beauty when he was around seven years old. He talks about how, “beauty meant something special to me.” It was special to him but now it isn’t. That is saying that when he was a child the world, more importantly the beauty in the world seemed different. Maybe the beauty seemed more important when he was seven years old but it really helped the story. I believe that this really made the tone more intense. “There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me.” That makes the tone a little bit more sad, like he’s saying “I used to love life and beauty but now it seems that life is in black and
It can teach people not to just go along when they see someone in need. It really can change some people’s life. This story really shows me how being a child can really show you things that you don’t see when you’re a teenager. It shows me how meaningful literary devices are. It also shows me that one thing in your life can be very traumatic at a time but can teach you to help. This story is now one of my favorites, it is brilliantly written with easy to follow words, “Butterflies.”Critical Analysis of …show more content…
He uses understandable language that is easy to follow. To me, this text is all about Kiser’s view of beauty when he was around seven years old. He talks about how, “beauty meant something special to me.” It was special to him but now it isn’t. That is saying that when he was a child the world, more importantly the beauty in the world seemed different. Maybe the beauty seemed more important when he was seven years old but it really helped the story. I believe that this really made the tone more intense. “There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me.” That makes the tone a little bit more sad, like he’s saying “I used to love life and beauty but now it seems that life is in black and