Themes in The Cry of The Children and To The Reader

fairytales, such as Sleeping Beauty help children develop strong intellect while clarifying a child’s emotions. In The Uses of Enchantment: the Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, Bruno Bettelheim explains his psychoanalytical understanding Sleeping Beauty. When I first read his interpretations of this fairytale I began to disagree with alot of the things he said. Yet, as I think back of the time I read Sleeping Beauty, I was surprised by the central theme of the fairytale and how the story…

the contrast of Barrett’s “The Cry of the Children” and Robert’s “My Last Duchess.” Robert uses dramatic monologue in “My Last Duchess” to invoke self-reflection about notions of nobility,ownership and objectification of women. The reader experiences life through a “noble” man (hereafter…

and aunt, who have forfeited their aspirations as they’ve aged and live their lives unfulfilled, surround her. This shapes Hang as strives to live her life free of obligation, a contrast to the themes of unfilled potential and dissatisfaction. The cripple living in the street of Hanoi most embodies this theme, due to Huong’s description and the dark lyrics of his song, echoing with sadness. Throughout her life, encounters with the cripple reveal Hang’s character development as well as provide…

process of making — and making you listen.” (Petri). Poems have always been a way for readers to truly understand and analyze a piece of work, however as art has evolved many people prefer to evaluate songs instead. From Emily Dickinson to Beyoncé, both songs and poems have been a wonderful way for readers to understand the tone and theme the author is trying to convey. Songs have become a way for many young children to easily understand the concept at hand. The poem “I Love My Family So Much”…

can be easy to overlook that Songs of Innocence was once a work that stood on its own. However, looking at Songs of Innocence as an individual work allows the reader to step back from its role as a comparison to Songs of Experience. This separation makes the inherent dark themes in Songs of Innocence more difficult to ignore. One of those themes presents itself in failing fathers, both natural and divine. To accomplish his critique of natural fathers, Blake provides the poem “The Shepherd”,…

literary devices and techniques in order to let the reader understand the significance of the poem and their theme— death. Although both poem’s themes may be about death, the different techniques used by Dickinson and Heaney should allow the readers to comprehend each poet’s personal perception of the theme. In ‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’, Dickinson takes advantage of the usage of dashes. Not only is it used to accommodate a rhythm when the reader is reading it, it also stresses on…

The short story, “In the Kindergarten” was written by a Chinese-American writer, Ha Jin. He started to write when he studied in America. Ha Jin was born in 1956 in the northern Chinese city of Jinzhou. He has grown up during the Cultural Revolution 1960s. He joined the People’s Liberation Army when he was fourteen-year-old and could only continue his studies at the age of 21 when the colleges were reopened. He furthered his studies at local universities and was majoring in English. He started…

Throughout the first couple of chapters, the reader was lead to believe that Boo Radley looked and behaved like a monster. With the new revelations about who he is, I am even more curious to find out what Boo Radley truly looks like and to find out more about his background. So far, this character…

War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy is about a photographer who is struggling with the consequences and reality of war. The voice of criticism from the experience of war combined with the use of poetic devices exposes the theme of war. The poet uses compelling and distressing illustrations in this poem to enthrall pathos into the reader’s feelings. The use of pathos stirs up emotions of sympathy, sorrow, and despair. Thus, his photographic films are filled with pictures of the genuine agony…

Night Theme Essay A survivor of the horrific happenings of the concentration camps in World War II named Elie Wiesel writes a book called “Night”, telling the readers about his experience in the concentration camp and all how traumatizing the experience was and how it has left him scarred of the camp. The themes discussed in this essay are, Hope, Brutality, and Terror. To begin this essay the first theme spoken about is Terror. Terror is one of the main themes in the book “Night”, for as…