Mama and papa

father wanted and follow his own path is best shown by August Wilson on page 96 of the book Fences where Cory says to his mother: “ mama… I got something to tell you. I don’t know how to tell you this… but I have got to tell you… I’m not going to papa’s funeral.” And also another passage on page 96 describes his state of mind during his father’s funeral: “I can’t drag papa with me everywhere I go. I’ve got to say no to him. One time in my life I’ve got to say no”. Those two passages show how…

development suffers a hit. However, the first strategy that helps students build up their vocabulary is speaking. When children are young, parents start encouraging them to speak. Parents spend countless hours trying to get their kids to say “mama” or “papa” and they even make competitions on which word their child is going to say first. According to Wasik, “Research suggest that providing opportunities for children to talk and use…

The Atlantic Slave Trade imported over a million and a half slaves to the French colonies, and half of the slave population was imported to the French colony of Saint Domingo. The institution of slavery was based off a hierarchical society based on race, slaves were the lowest on the social ranking. Understanding the roles of women in Saint Domingo during slavery is essential to understanding the nature of the Black women’s experience in the French colony. The enslaved black women in the…

Throughout a person’s lifetime, they have to deal with hard times, and they all have different ways to cope with those hard times. Everyone has very various means to deal with how they want to deal with the difficult times in their lives. In Cynthia Ozick’s essay “A Drugstore In Winter,” she writes about how she and her family coped with the effects of the Great Depression. Her family faced many obstacles during the depression, like their drugstore being shut down, but they survived by dealing…

“My Papa’s Waltz” The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” written by Theodore Roethke is a great poem to show an example of a child’s life. In this poem, the deepest love from the father to his son was a key part in “My Papa’s Waltz”. There is no love like a child’s love for his/her parent, it is the best ‘type’ of love out there. In this poem, Theodore Roethke uses great words to describe what is going on in their house as a family of three. Every word in the stanza’s in this poem are greatly worded and…

My First Day of School in Kindergarden “Click” Good morning Natalie! Wake up! my mom said excitedly. My mom is a very loving and happy kind of person who always thinks positively. I groaned to indicate to my mom that I was awake. I just laid there in my bed tired and unwilling to get up, my mom decided to change me because she saw how sleepy I was. I woke myself up a bit but I was half asleep most of the time when my mom was changing me out of my pajamas. I would always jump once in a while…

In both The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Sold by Patricia McCormick, there is a common theme of loss of innocence. Both main characters, Liesel Meminger and Lakshmi, experience great change throughout their novels. Both make the transformation from young girls to matured women. Although they would still be legally considered children at the end of their novels, the two girls have gone through more than many adults have ever experienced. When Liesel Meminger went to live with the Hubermanns,…

Over the course of this year, the English II class has read many non-fiction texts. The first text that showed the importance of family was I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. In this book, Maya Angelou explains her life and how racism has affected her and helped her to fight for African-American rights. The importance of family is expressed when her grandmother says, “You children is the most ungrateful things I ever did see. You think your momma and poppa went to all the trouble…

Liesel demonstrates how illiterate people in the world are seen. Even if one has high intelligence without the ability to shape words they are pictured as beneath a potentially less intelligent but literate person. After being taught how to read by Papa, Liesel begins to understand the influence that words can have over a population. She begins to read as much as possible and improves her abilities. Her progress was noted throughout the novel particularly in the quote “Once, words had rendered…

point-of-view. So whatever Cassie knows we know and sometimes since she is only nine is not that much. Taylor uses some literary techniques to help us understand what to look. One technique that she uses is when Cassie is getting lectures from Mama, Papa, and Uncle Hammer Taylor does this so that it give us insight into the book 'sdifferent messages. Another example of this at work in the novel is when Cassie overhears the adults talking at church about how the Berrys were attacked, “The boys…