On the other hand The History Teacher by Billy Collins deals with the euphemisms a history teacher uses in an attempt to protect his students’ innocence but in the end it turns out that the students are everything but innocent. These two poems are written in very different styles and even the reason for the lie is different which means that the only similarity would be the main theme of the poem which involves and adult lying to a child to protect him. The reason for the lie, the result of the lie, and the speaker’s attitude about lying to the child, lead us to understand that each of the poems is directed to a child of a different age. In A Barred Owl there are no apparent reasons for the adult to lie to the child, it is just a stupid lie in an attempt to get the child to go back to sleep. This is due to the fact that the child is about four to five years old, time when most of the kids suffer from nightmares.
It is a rare and beautiful thing to find someone that can stand up for what they believe in, still knowing that everyone else they know is against their ideas. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the protagonist, Atticus Finch, is a loving and just character who sees through the preconceived belief in his community that class and social position is very important by looking at everyone as an individual. He does this because of his own beliefs in equality and justice that he also tries to teach to his children. Atticus doesn’t act the way he does only for himself, but also for the people he cares most about. Atticus Finch is a loving, but understanding father.
In essence, his parenting style is to ignore his children unless he wants to abuse them. The parent in To Kill A Mockingbird that most closely resembles the parents we’d see today is Walter Cunningham. Cunningham is a hard working, poor farmer. He’s taught his children about hard work and seems loving, but there is an incident where he leads a mob to lynch Tom Robinson at the jailhouse. He’s eventually convinced by Scout to not lynch Robinson, because Cunningham has a responsibility to his children.
Because Charlie is an observer of life, he sees things that people usually don’t and has to keep them as secrets. Although burdens to Charlie, Chbosky writes these “secrets” in a way that enables the reader to understand the meaning of them and understand them as life lessons, even if the meaning doesn’t occur to Charlie. For example, Charlie witnesses his sister getting hit by her boyfriend. Charlie’s sister begs him not to tell anyone about the incident because “he’s [her] whole world” (25), and because Charlie is naïve, he doesn’t tell a soul. While this might not have been the right
Yes sir!” External: Scout agrees with the compromise her father, Atticus and her agreed to. Level C Behavior: Scout is Level C because she follows through with the agreement her and Atticus had made about her staying in school. 6 Pg:”He declined to let us take our air rifles to the Landing (I had already begun to think of shooting Francis) and said if we made one false move he'd take them away from us for good. External: Scout continues to dislike Francis but she remembers what would happen if she attempted to do something. Level B Behavior: Scout is Level B because she wants to hurt Francis badly but then she thinks on what her father, Atticus had told her.
Therefore, The Catcher in the Rye should be taught and analyzed in high school to express that to live in the past will get us nowhere, to teach how to deal with depression and to develop an understanding of anti-conformity. To begin with, the novel, The Catcher in the Rye precisely expresses that the future waits for no one, especially those who try to avoid it. Towards the final stages of the novel, Holden remembers the people who beat him, but there was no justifiable reason for this arbitrary thought. This can mean that Holden inadvertently held on to the unwarranted violence that he had received
But people are blind to see the actual message of the book and instead, looking at a few words in the book that seem offensive. Books like To Kill A Mockingbird and The Giver these books are banned because of some people think it’s not good for students to read it. But some of them are just banned for the craziest reasons like just for one thing the book has one bad word in it. Some people just make up so that there kids don’t have to read it. Like they say this book is going to teach my child to jaywalk, but jaywalking happens all the time and adults do it and kids just copy it not from a book.
The good is Atticus Finch because he is doing what is right., and the evil are the townspeople because they think Atticus is wrong for standing up, and fighting for a black man. Another example of the novel being a struggle between good and evil is when a little first , Jem Scout was in school he knew how to read and very well. But the problem was, his teacher Miss Caroline did not want him to know how to read. She says that it’s her job to teach the child how to lead and that Jem’s father needs to stop teaching him how to read. The good is Jem and his father.
The speaker in Wilbur’s poem is merely a parent trying to settle a restless child, while the speaker in Collins’s poem is a teacher trying to shield his students from the many evils of the world. Children must be protected and soothed, and adults always make their best effort to achieve this. Contradicting images and diction are presented in both poems. In A Barred Owl, the author provides frightening images with words like “darkened” and “terrors” and with the lines “Or dreaming of some small thing in a claw Borne up to some dark branch and eaten raw.” Wilbur presents these gruesome images but manages to downplay them with a simple explanation to the child. Even though these images and diction are scary, the poem still manages to be more settling than Collins’s poem.
Baba never discusses her with Amir, and he doesn’t appreciate the qualities she passed down to her son “That was how I escaped my father's aloofness, in my dead mother's books” this being a disgrace to baba as he wished for a masculine son "Real men didn't read poetry-and God forbid they should ever write it!” this effectively showing baba’s disinterest in Amir as Baba believes a real man is interested in sports. One interpretation to explain his lack of conformity to the ideal model of manhood could be due to his mother as she feminizes him even though she's almost