Summary Of The Move By Adrian Nickelback

In “The Move” by Adrian Nickelback the poet describes their emotions when their family had to move. Nickelback expresses how the reality of having to move made them feel. The poet then reminisces on their friends in their neighborhood. They then describe their thoughts while driving away from their former home. In “The Move” Nickelback uses personification, metaphor, and tonal shift to suggest that big changes can be difficult to deal with an affect one’s reality.
The poet uses personification to tell the reader their thoughts and emotions when reality hit. They are describing their emotions when they were told their family had to move. Nickelback describes the feeling of being hit with reality. In doing this they say, “Only to be grabbed by the neck by the cold, ridged, scaly hands of reality” (Nickelback 4). Nickelback personifies reality to relate the feeling of being hit with reality with the feeling of being choked by cold, rough hands. Describing the hads as cold, scaley, and ridged shows that reality is sharp, unforgiving, and uninviting, he line shows that the poet is shocked by the abrupt reality of moving. They feel like they are …show more content…
The poet begins to reminisce on their memories from the neighborhood. They compare their friends to tall trees in a forest. They then say, “Our branches intertwined and eventually we all became one” (Nickelback 11). The poet makes this comparison th help the reader understand how close they were to their friends. They compare their friends to trees to show how strong and well rooted they were. This metaphor shows that this group of friends are all very close and would even consider themselves a single unit. The comparison shows that the poet was very attached to their roots in the neighborhood and had a painful time leaving. The metaphor helps the reader get a deeper sense of how much of a connection Nickelback has to their