Hate That Cat Poem Analysis

In the book Hate that Cat by Sharon Creech, Jack is miraculously growing in development through his poetry both at school and at home. When he is at home, he is talking about poetry with his mom and sharing some of the poems that he has written at school. Jack is also sharing the poems through sign language because his mother is deaf. He then has to teach or share with her some of the techniques that go into making a good poem through rhythm, hard then soft. He is also making growth at home because he is being very critical of elements of poetry with his uncle Bill. Jack and his uncle discuss that his poems are non-poems because they do not include alliterations and onomatopoeias. Jack then goes to Miss Stretchberry to discuss what he and his …show more content…
In the book Love that Dog, Jack talks about not liking poetry because only girls write poetry. The author also talks about that Jack did not know if his poems were actually poems or not. Now Jack really likes writing poetry and he is confident about his poems. He is also learning at school, that there are ways to make poetry even more creative, using onomatopoeias and alliterations. He is developing the way he writes poetry, because in the classroom the teacher is sharing more complex poetry to look at different point of views. Poets they have used in the classroom are Edgar Allen Poe (twenty-four), William Carlos Williams (ninety-two), Mr. Tennyson (thirty-nine), and many others. Miss Stretchberry is providing different poets and styles for the students to experience in the classroom. These students in Miss Stretchberry’s class are practicing writing these different styles of poetry, as she reads each poet’s …show more content…
Through collecting the works of each of the different poets that Miss Stretchberry provides the students. The author talks about how Jack is getting more confident in his poetry. Especially, when he presents to his class and all their parents the poem that he made. Jack also did sign language for his mother while other students were presenting their poems to the audience. This would make Jack more developed because he presented in sign language the poems in the rhythm of hard then soft. He also used the elements of poetry while presenting the sign language to his