Through the Wire

(2). The speaker wants to restrict her writing by putting the composition into an enclosure where it will be protected. She knows that she wants her writing to be kept safe, and she does this by creating an area surrounded by “chicken wire” (3). This wire is a thin wire netting surrounding an area with tight mesh, to keep chickens or other livestock safe from lurking predators. Chickens in particular are vulnerable animals because they cannot fly nor move fast, allowing for them to be an easy…

The theme of "O Captain! My Captain!" is that sacrifices have to be made in order to be successful and gain greatness. Elegy: somber toned poem, lament for the dead This poem is an Elegy in honor of Abraham Lincoln. Walt Whitman wrote this poem a little after Lincoln's assassination. This poem is a big metaphor because it is about a captain -Abraham Lincoln- and his crew -Lincoln's followers- obtaining their sought out prize-winning the civil war- but after getting what they want the captain…

Moreover, Bruno’s father kept him from being curious. Bruno was an explorer and when he moved to Auschwitz all he wanted to do was explore. However, his father prohibited him from doing such. “The one thing Bruno tried not to think about was that he had been told on countless occasions by both Mother and Father that he was not allowed to walk in this direction, that he was not allowed anywhere near the fence or the camp, and most particularly that exploration was banned at Out-With” (103, Print)…

story Blackheart, a little girl named emily is left by her dad argentina. She 's with family members but she really would rather be with her dad in Sherman. Where they live it 's has a high violence area. There house is surrounded by two tall barbed wire fences except in the vineyard. The vineyard only has a short picket fence, but that 's ok. They also have 4 dogs each meaner then the next but the fourth is the meanest. It 's a mixture of pitbull, rottweiler, german shepherd, and wolf. Emily is…

Never will words be able to do justice to the torture, sadness, and pure loss of hope experienced within the barbed wire fences of concentration camps. Primo Levi’s recount of his time as a prisoner is the closest anyone on the outside will ever come to truly being able to understand it without experiencing the imprisonment first hand. Human beings were destroyed in these camps; deprived of their humanity and minimized to just a number. The Nazi Regime stripped these people of their past,…

ground, motionless. “He’ll be fine”, shouted a counselor from afar, as he tried to calm the children. Ozzy remembered seeing him on the bus. He was whispering to all the boys to follow his lead once they arrived. He remembers him saying that he’s been through this and can’t do it again. In a scurry, a drill sergeant barked, “This is lorenzo's camp! I think you all know the drill, so get outta here”. Feeling confused with all the kids moving in all directions, Ozzy thought to himself, what is…

that I turned out just like him. Besides archery, my dad also showed me how to shoot a gun. He brought his 12-gauge shotgun to my grandmas so our family could have a friendly competition shooting clay pigeons. When it was my turn, my dad talked me through everything. He was holding me so the recoil of the gun would not hurt…

conjunction with the imagery that follows directly contrasts this preconceived notion, as well as acting to highlight the fact that there are no victors in war. The concept of the last laugh is compounded by the laughing aural imagery lexically clustered through the poem. The guns are anthropomorphically personified throughout the poem, as they are described as laughing.. It is recurrent throughout the duration of the poem, as the soldiers die, ‘Machine-guns chuckle..’, (4)and ‘splinters……

I look through the metal bars that encompassed my sol window in the tiny cell I shared with a bear of a man. The man's name was Manuel. He was only serving time for a couple years. I, was stuck here for life. I'll admit what I did was wrong, but the kid had no respect. It all happened one early morning while I had been ordering the workers to pull something when a young boy stopped working to as he said "take a breather". I had strict rules that you can't take any breaks, so I told him to get…

“happily ever-after” with their son and their domestic workers, but because of the social climate around them they are constantly under threat of violence and theft and their happy ending is ultimately destroyed when their son gets caught in the barbed wire fence that secures their house. In the attempt to protect their happiness, the parents fail to neglect their own…