The Man He Killed, By Janice Mirikitani

Tragedy then Death When you think of a tragedy, most of the time you think of death. It’s like a shocking aspiration that comes about with the feeling of discomfort. Tragedy or even the fatality of death can both have mixed emotions with one another, which is something people feel before and after the death of their loved one. Some of these mixed emotions could be sorrow, depression, anxiety, sadness, or even hope. Most of the time people attack and kill others based on the wrongdoing of things that have occurred in their life, and they feel that another person should feel their pain or go through what they went through, but even much more badly. The theme in the three poems, “Suicide Note,” “The Man He Killed,” and “Ballad of Birmingham” …show more content…
It is and could be an emotional distress that most college students go through under any circumstances, and they feel the need to end their life because they feel like there is no hope in the future for themselves. The killer has had numerous thoughts on ending her life, she just didn’t know when to do it. “How many notes written… / ink smeared like bird prints in snow / not good enough not pretty enough not smart enough / dear mother and father / I apologize / for disappointing you.” (“Mirikitani” 1-6). At this point she felt less of a person, thinking she was stupid and made her parents feel bad in a way of being hopeless. “I apologize / Task do not come easily / Each failure, a glacier / Each disapproval, a bootprint / Each disappointment / ice above my river / So I have worked hard / not good enough.” (“Mirikitani” 23-30). In this part of the poem she is stating the fact that she tried her very best in school of trying to get a high grade point average, letting her parents know that it does get very difficult along the way, and she felt that she failed her parents and made them very disappointed in