I Am Nobody Who Are You By Stephen Chbosky

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Emily dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts she lived a reclusive life in a family homestead. Her family deep roots are New England. She was the middle child of three children. Unlike most children she left school when she was teenager and went to Amherst academy now called Amherst College.Which is where her paternal grandfather worked at as a state legislature.Dickinson's schooling was extraordinary for girls in the early nineteenth century, though not unusual for girls in Amherst. After a short period of time at an Amherst district school, she attended Amherst for seven years before entering Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1847 which is now called Mount Holyoke College. She attended the Seminary for one …show more content…
For example in the movie Charlie is a social awkward, shy , and unpopular high school freshman, kind of like the speaker in the poem. Charlie is coping with the suicide of his close friend Michael as he starts his freshman year of highschool. As the story progresses Charlie connects with Bill his english teacher who helps him get over his shyness and helps meet new friends; Sam and Patrick. The movie kind of connects to the poem because before Charlie met his new friends he was just a bystander who was just letting life fly by and making the most of his life. He wasn't really in the crowd with the other kids he would usually be shy and quiet, and wouldn't want to talk to anyone kind of like the speaker in the poem. Overall the speaker in the poem and Charlie connect to each …show more content…
For Example,” How public-like a frog-”( Dickinson, 6) Dickinson uses frogs and refer to them as Somebodies or public figures because they are consistently croaking in the swamp, reminding all the other frogs of their identities and location. Dickinson compares the two because celebrities or public figures are always letting people know who they are and they constantly want to be recognized by others. When frogs making the croaking sound there just making noise,” To an admiring Bog”(Dickinson,8) that no one really cares about there saying kind of like how celebrities make public appearances. People don't really care about what they are saying because they don't really make or have an impact on the world. The definition of bog is where frogs live and can also mean something that slows you down. This can contribute because caring about what others think can make you not live out others lives and not yours, thinking of others and not thinking about yourself. Phrasing the “admiring bog” can devote to what Dickinson is putting an emphasis on it is better to be a nobody than a

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