Analysis Of Talking With His Father's Momma-Come Here-Appear

The story starts off with letters between the two, and in those letters the girl makes her love for the boy very clear” I told my papa that I loved you… I love you until the hair shivers at the thought of anything happening to you”(pg22.) from this quote you can see her deep love for the boy and her not wanted anything bad happening to him. Which by the end of the story she kind of realizes he is never going to come back, however there is a possibility that he might.” I see mountains, and behind those mountains are more mountains still… I feel like those mountains are pushing me further away from you”(pg26)The girl’s love for the boy and the shift of her realization that he might not return ties together to help the reader create an overall sense of

I choose this passage because it represented the parent child relationship between Laila and Mariam. Laila and Mariam have both had a tough relationship with their mothers and overall have not had the life they had ever imagined. They both have been deprived from their mother's love and left to mature by themselves. At the beginning of their relationship, Mariam is outraged at the presence of another woman in her home. Laila, however, attempts to become friends with Mariam, and the lonely Mariam finally realizes that Laila is no threat to her. They later develop a connection and have found the mother child relationship they both have been yearning for within each other.Mariam played a mother figure to Laila because Miriam was older and she

The author Wes Moore recounts the time in chapter one, “Is Daddy Coming With Us?” , when he met his father who at the time was just a strange man. Wes states that “[he] looked at his mother… [moving] closer to [her] hip” (Moore 25). He continues by telling the reader that he automatically felt safer next to her. The reason for this text is to help the reader understand how many families can help with the development of a person. The author describes this event in full detail to show how Wes’ family provided him with a sense of feeling safe and sheltered.

It is first shown in the entirety of the first stanza. Where it is stated that lies as a young child have led the individual into a dark place. This can be interpreted that the individual is feeling ashamed of themselves for all the lies they have told. Guilt is demonstrated once again in the second stanza. In line 14-18, Trethewey expresses, “I could even keep quiet, quiet as kept, like the time a white girl said (squeezing my hand), Now we have three of us in the class” (Trethewey 473).

In his own childish way, the boy is still loyal to his father, and still sees him as a parental figure, even though he’s being activilt hurt by him, the boy seeks out his abuser for comfort.

The use of repetition of certain words is used throughout the story and its use in this passage emphasizes the opposing feelings of the parents.

The father is a drunken man who abuses his son, but the son accepts his father’s actions and continues to seek love from him. The boy would “waltz” with his father while the mother watched with fear, and with “every step you missed, my right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head…” (Lines 11-13). The father drunkenly abused his son, but the son who “...hung on like death...Still clinging to your shirt” (Lines 3 and 16) was longing to be loved. The tone of this poem is violent and harsh due to the unhealthy relationship between father and

His language makes it easy to imagine the son leaving home and the way the father is reacting to this day finally coming. People reading can see the son packing his shirts and looking for his keys as the father screams. It’s easy to envision the boy sitting on his “Baba’s” lap waiting and the silence he gets in return. The visual use of language makes the poem more emotional and real; being able to picture the characters makes them more three dimensional and relatable to all whom read this poem. The father screaming as his son gets ready to go off into adulthood gives readers the image of a man's world falling apart, the father knew that this day would come but when it actually did, it broke him. “‘Are you a god' the man screams, 'that I sit mute before you? Am I a god that I should never disappoint?'” Lee’s words give off the picture of the desperate and overwhelming love that a parent can have for their child. “Please, Baba, a story? It is an emotional rather than logical equation, an earthly rather than heavenly one,” This sentence makes the poem so much more emotional, the language used implies that the son isn’t just asking for a story, he’s asking for his father’s affection, for his father to sit with him and make him laugh, keep him entertained. That’s all he wants and the line “an earthly rather than heavenly one” implies that the father knows his son isn’t

The poet addresses issues of the child observing an unhealthy and abusive relationship between his/her father and mother in the third stanza. The eighth line states, “Do we forgive our Fathers for marrying or not marrying our Mothers?” These words insinuate that the father treated the child’s mother badly or was abusive to her and that she deserved better. This is so considering the only reason to forgive someone for marrying another implies they treated that person improperly. Likewise, having to forgive someone for not marrying another simply displays how the other person never received what he or she

As we get older we tend to reflect more on our life and get our priorities together. We tend to realize who and what is important, the people who mean the most to us and the ones we can’t live without. Who would those significant individuals be for us? For most people it would be their parents. In the poems “My Father’s Song” by Simon J. Ortiz, and “My Mother” by Ellen Bryant Voigt, both writers express their emotion towards a parent. The poems are similar in many ways simply because they share a parent child relationship, they are also vastly different. “My Fathers Song” is a poem about a son who lost his father and is grieving and referring back to old memories, reflecting on their past and the wonderful time he had with his father. “My Mother” on the other hand is a poem about a daughter who lost her mother and is having a difficult time coping as she reflects on the decisions she made as a child and how that affected her relationship with her mother. Despite their differences, the two poems share a true connection of love towards their parent. Most notably “My Fathers Song” and “My Mother” differ in the relationship with their parent, the settings in which the memories they hold of their parents take place, and who they are mourning over, yet the two have a strong emphasis on love.

The guilt and frustration is reflected on to the father which can be seen after the first reading. However, the use of specific words and the use of both present and past tense determines the context of the situation and alludes to the effect the father had on his son. The effects on the son are presented in the second stanza; however, at first it is unclear of whether is it positive or negative. The use of “ached” and the

The son however is the ‘faith’ within the story. He is the hope for a better future. The son is more trusting towards others and therefore becomes upset and quiet when his father doesn’t agree with him. “I’m afraid for that little boy” – The son has never seen another young boy and is frightened for him but his father shrugs off his pleas to help him and says “I know but he’ll be alright”. Towards the end of the book it appears that the father and his son become distant to each other due to their diverse personalities. It could however be seen that the son is a lot more knowledgeable about dangers and therefore does not need his father as much.

Another sighed, 'O Mother, mother! Dad! - This verse refers to the begining verse, implying once again that the soldiers are crying out but this time its a cry to the personified weaponry creating an even greater effect of strength and ascendancy.

Especially when he hears latest part, “There is so much sadness in the faces of my people. I have called on their gods, now I call on our gods. I call on our young. I call on our old. I call on our mighty and the weak. I call on everyone and anyone so that we shall all let out one piercing cry that we may either live freely or we should die.”(Danticat 150) The guy wiped his tear after he hears it and heading outside. When the little guy asks his mother what is wrong with his father, Lili answers “His heart hurts,”(155) Because of the guy feels pity on himself, he considers his own life as if it is meant for nothing. He does not want to continue with his boring life but, he desires some excitement or magnificent changes to get involved in his life. To put this simply, he wants to live freely, the guy has too much burdens on his shoulders, such as he is the one who need to sacrifice his life to maintain the ordinary life of the family. “It was now easier for him to imagine their son’s lips around those breasts than to imagine his anywhere near them.”(90) This phrase implies that the Guy does not feel Lili as a woman but more like little guy’s mother. It also foreshadows that there is not much things that would hold the Guy to stay in the ordinary life.

dear Girl! that walkest with me here”, indicates the start of the second part of the sonnet. The “Child” is understood to be his daughter (Caroline) and they are walking on the beach and talking to each other. It could be seen as their new path they are walking together with God and that they are sharing it with each other. The writer also uses anaphora as figure of speech when saying “Dear Child! dear Girl!” Here the writer turns to his daughter, and observes that unlike him, she is not touched by “solemn thought” in line 10. This indicates that the little girl is innocent and pure of heart and has not yet been touched by the evil of the world. The writer sates that unlike him he wants his daughter to stay pure and stay close to God. “Thy nature is not therefore less divine:” in (line 11) is understood to say that he declares that this fact does not make her “less divine”—childhood is inherently at one with nature, worshipping in the unconscious, “inner temple” (line 13) of pure unity with the present moment and surroundings. The child lies in "Abraham's bosom;" Abraham's bosom is Christ's description of the resting place for heaven bound souls (Luke 16.22). He says that she worships in the “Temple’s inner shrine” (line 13) merely by being, and that “God is with thee when we know it not” (Line 14). The writer here uses alliteration as figure of speech in line 14 “with thee when