Did I Miss Anything Tom Wayman Summary

Tom LaVentura tells about a woman named Kathleen Sheffield and how she helped to get a grant for NAMI to be able to come to the island of Kaua`i to help those with mental illness. It talks about how they will have classes starting soon to not only help those with the mental illness but also the family members who are also affected by this disease. Kathleen Sheffield says, “We want to lead them back to independence, and to see them recover and not be a burden to the family,” NAMI is raising awareness throughout the island with the NAMI walk to help show support to those who have lost the fight and those who are still fighting.

The poem focuses around the author’s childhood memory of his school day. However, there is a much deeper meaning to his typical school day as he remembers vividly the repetition of events surrounding him in the classroom. He remembers the day being dark, gray, and rainy, instantly setting the tone of the poem. With dark images like the gray sky, continuous rainfall, and the continuous children’s choir

The first stanza concludes by stating, “The carriage held but just ourselves/And Immortality” (Lines 3-4). These lines are used to acknowledge that there is a difference between death and time, because while they work in unison they still are not one and the same. Time has control over our lives during both mortality and

Alternatively we can determine that these affect everyone’s lives similarly. As all stanzas without dependence on matter begin and end in this conclusive manner. The bystanders in the poem can be seen as a symbol for humanity as a whole and their response to death. Their ordinary and individual lives are affected by death in the same way through projecting grief towards the victim but moreover focusing on ‘their own distress’. The idea that death is experienced by everyone is proven in the statement ‘all streets in time are visited’. He therefore concludes that we are all impacted by death, it is ‘all we are’, the one thing we all share in common. His realistic view of death shows his acceptance of the subject. In an alternate view we could argue he sees death optimistically. His collective nouns ‘all we are’, ‘all we do’ show a universal

Michael Carmody entered the classroom for the second day, with a sense of anticipation, rather than with any nervousness as he had the prior day, where he’d first met the students he’d been given the responsibility to guide to GCSE Literature and Success for the remainder of the year. Not that Michael wasn’t qualified, or confident in his ability to teach the subjects – he’d . It was just that teaching in a classroom full-time was to be completely different than on the sports fields, and in the gymnasium, where he usually plied his trade, where rowdiness was to be expected, and even at times encouraged. but since Mr Edwards had gone down with an illness during the half-term break, and wasn’t expected to return to the next full year, Michael had been co-opted conduct his classes.

Everyone had now realised what I had done and broke out in a storm of laughter. I threatened the rest of the class with a similar fate and they exploded again, it only went quiet when the shadow of Miss Blount fell over them. Miss Blount is a native Maycombian as yet uninitiated in the mysteries of the Decimal System, appeared at the door hands on hips and announced that if she hears another sound from the room she’ll up everyone in it.’ She also told me the sixth grade couldn’t concentrate on the pyramids because of the so called racket coming from my room. I did not appreciate her coming into my classroom and telling my pupils to be quiet. The bell then went for lunch everyone filed out I just sunk in my chair and put my head in my arms. A lot had happened in just half a day and there was still the afternoon to come.

When reading the poem “Did I Miss Anything?” personally I was able to relate to the poem being in a college student in the class room for the majority of the day. When reading this poem it was not like other poems learned in this class there was no hidden meaning to it, the meaning was lying right there in the text. The poem Did I Miss Anything portrays the tone as sarcastic. The speaker portrays a sarcastic tone because every time a student asks a question in the form Did I Miss Anything, the speaker pretends that they are answering the question of the student in an honest manner. When the fact of the matter is the speaker is beating around the bush of saying that the student has worded the question in the wrong choice of words. Being enrolled

The poet uses metaphor and conflict in the poem. The opening sentence of the poem, which is “Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud Says that America is for him a maximum-security prison”, represents the ethos of the whole poem.

At the beginning of the poem, the teacher feels preposterous with one simple and naïve question from his student. While teaching his student about "Dover Beach" (1), the young freshman girl questions whether the Sea of Faith is palpable. The question either naïve or foolish when what they are discussing about is just a "figurative language" (6). She wonders if it an actual physic sea that people can see on the maps. Along with the questioning tone and the words "real" repeat three times in line 8,9, and 12 shows that she doesn't understand the lesson or the difference between figurative language and literally. It is absurd for the teacher that she has the nerve to ask such and simple yet reckless question. In addition, he feels so juvenile when their conversation is about a thing which everybody knows is real, yet it is not concrete real.

“As we read through the poem, jot down any feelings or emotions that you might have. How does it make you feel? What do you think of? Does it remind you of anything you have seen or heard before?”

It is a genuine subject this emergency, in essence, of confidence yet the adolescent exaggeration as found in line 11-15's "“Maybe it was the demon-stoked rotisseries of purgatory where we would roast hundreds of years for the smallest of sins” demonstrates the impressibility of a youthful personality being advised how to live. At the point when the poem moves from consideration over the purpose behind leaving the storyteller appears to settle on the last bit of excess that will be tolerated being the point at which he wore his "space-helmet to catechism." From this point it is a fantastical retelling of the kid gliding up through the top of the congregation and getting away from the congregation. The polar way of the subject full grown is communicated wonderfully in the picture of his body being "cold on one side and hot on the other" "in the darkness and brightness of

Lynda Barry's writing demonstrates to the reader that schools are more than just institutions that provide learning spaces. Ideally, every kid in a classroom should be living a happy life outside of school. But in reality, this is seldom the case, and some kids are living a rough time at home. Family values are fundamental to a kids' development, yet every day it seems families get disoriented with disputes life troughs in their paths. Forgetting of what truly is important. The school is like a second home to some kids. Barry's essay demonstrates this by explaining the effect school had on her. As a result, she sees the janitor in which she is delighted to see and quickly sparks a smile on her face. Another example is when she sees her teacher Mrs.LeSane and goes up to her and cries. Finally, the last case is the therapeutic value of art Mrs.Lesane believed on.

Third supporting point: However, in the end, Davis shows us that no possessions and accomplishments will keep us from death or loss. That we will have no lifes simplier things and that these things brings joy far more than the material possessions can.

I flunked out of summer school at Brebeuf today. What a lousy school it was anyways. I hated everyone there, especially this phony sonuvabitch kid in my class named John Simo. He was always giving girls the eye and talking to the teacher, Prendi. Boy, it would have thought that they were dating if I didn’t know no better. John Simo He asked me for a dollar today, so that he could get himself a cookie. I gave him the dollar, but told him I found it on the ground earlier today. I wasn’t going to let him think I would give him my own money. What a scrawny kid he was. I hated him. I flunked English not because I’m not good at it, but because I couldn’t focus with Ms. Prendi’s annoying constant laugh. Boy, she’d laugh at anything you said. I once

For one thing, Mrs.Rainey, my teacher, hated me. She never called on me in class when I knew the answer, and she called on me when i didn’t know the answer. If that wasn’t enough, she cruelly laughed at me when I got a question wrong. I tried to stay positive, but every time I said hello, she scowled at me. Furthermore, she made me stay inside for recess