Eng125 Reading Response to a Poem: Boy at the Window

The father does not comply with his son and leaves the naked man alone in the cold. This further shows the differences between the boy and his father. The final contrast between the two is exemplified with the ending. Throughout the book the reader is allowed to assume that if the son dies in the novel then the father would consequently commit suicide. At the end of the story when the father dies first the boy stays strong and decides to blindly follow other survivors and put his faith in them. Throughout, the story; however the father doesn't put any trust into anyone. His son, being a foil of him decides to put his faith into other survivors and takes a leap of faith and follow them their camp. This instance further shows the stark difference between the father and the son.

In the time the men were gone, Snow White had apparently just gotten into another fight with her “evil stepmom”. I really don’t know what’s so evil about this woman, but Snow really can’t complain until she’s taken a walk in my shoes. Being the whiny little brat that she is, Snow was running through the woods crying her eyes out just hoping someone would find her and give her just an ounce of attention. Poor girl. By the way things looked it was apparent she had no intentions of returning home, and with no one in sight she propped up against a large tree stump in defeat. When she leaned up against the wood though, it caved in and she fell into the middle of what she had thought to believe was a normal every day stump. Shocked and amazed at what she found inside, Snow decided to just make herself at home, because that’s princess etiquette.

It seems that throughout the novel there is an extended metaphor of Snowman as various figures from the Christian bible. The first figure that Snowman can be said to represent is that of Adam, the first man, though the similarities between the two characters do not follow the same chronology. Just as Adam is given the animals as companions to look over, similarly Crake has ensured that the Crakers and Jimmy are both left

The speaker then moves to a restaurant where he picks up a chicken noodle soup and gets his want across to the staff by simply pointing at it. The stanza ends with the line “I am adjusting well to the new way”(10), showing that according to the speaker the new law is working fine for him and he is able to live a normal life. However, with the entrance into the third stanza we begin to question whether the speaker naturally only acted this way towards the phone call and the staff in the restaurant, without using any words or he was actually saving them for his lover. The second reason is more likely to be true, due to his statement in the next verse “I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-nine today. I saved the rest for you”(11/13). Here, the second character is introduced in the poem – the long distance lover. It becomes obvious that the speaker, who is most probably a man, is in a long distance relationship with a woman and the way communicate is via phone call. The speaker tells his lover proudly he has only used fifty-nine words today and has saved the rest for her. This shows the speaker’s devotion towards his lover because he has chosen to use most of his words on her.

He promised to take good care of their son and to have him back in time for the Christmas Eve dinner. After they had finished their last ski run the son was not very happy and wanted to be home. He says,”…I swayed from foot to foot, clapping my mittens and wishing I was home. I could see everything. The green tablecloth, the plates with the holly pattern, the red candles waiting to be lit.”(Wolff, 1) You can tell that the son was not too happy with his father in the beginning of the story. He even tells his dad;”We should have left before, Doctor.” (Wolff, 1) The reason why he was not happy with his father was because it seemed like they were not going to get him home in time for the Christmas Eve dinner. His father also seemed very concerned about his son. After they started driving on the snowy road he told his son, “Don’t ever try this yourself….. You need, I don’t know—a certain instinct.” (Wolff, 2)

One of the biggest destructions of naivete is when the little kids in the village tell him that all the Jews got taken away. Some other examples of naivete being destroyed is when the kids who have been saved by Barney tell him that Adolf Hitler is the boss of the nazis and that he is the one who wants all the Jews to be

Naïve is described as showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment. To be naïve would compare to being innocent. In the poem “When I Was One and Twenty”, Housman’s character was more along the lines of naiveté. The young man was given advice from a wise older man, but refused apply it; in turn, he regrets not listening to the wise man. In the Poem, “We Real Cool”, the characters had an extreme lack of wisdom.

Once the world’s inhabitants are wiped out, Snowman is left with the task of taking care of the Crakers. Whether it is the fact that Snowman wants to be the parent he never had, or if he just simply doesn’t want to lose his only somewhat human interactions, it is evident that he cares about these creatures. In the time of crisis he exhibits a compassionate reasonability toward the Crakers because it is his duty to look after the new race of humans. Perhaps the only positive by product of his dysfunctional childhood is that he knows what it is like to be deserted and left uncared for so he strives now in his adulthood as Snowman to protect the Crakers as best he can. Even though Crakers original vision for these creature was to make them Godless and without art, Snowman taught them things in there “childhood” that contradicted there original thoughts. Snowman teaches them about the world and tries to make them understand their surroundings better, even though his explanations make him feel isolated and alone; reminding him of the sad childhood that he had. He gives them something to believe in and he teaches them right from wrong. He becomes the parent that he wishes he had had.

Mark Twain once said, "We are creatures of outside influences -- we originate nothing within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action, the impulse is always suggested from the outside." In the memoir This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff Jack shows that he is a creature of outside influence. Some examples of this are that he copies what his friends do, he doesn't try to shape his own life, and he is heavily influenced by the male figures in his life.

Alex Kershaw and the Bedford boys is a story from a little town of only 3000 in Bedford Virginia. It 's a small town that never recovered from the Great Depression. Effect of this is most of the young men in Bedford joined the towns armory National Guard unit. Alpha company was one of many company 's threw out Virginia numbering around 7500 guardsmen. In the days to come, it would be decided that the 29th infantry division the "Blue and grey" would land on the Normandy beaches to start the invasion. Alpha company and the boys from Bedford would soon be breaking threw the defenses at "Dog one “Omaha beach.

Words such as “simple” and “naïve” can often carry a negative connotation in our society. Referring to another human being as simple is more often than not a roundabout mockery to their intellect. Calling a person naïve is similar to calling them ignorant or unaware. While reading Flaubert’s A Simple Heart, one will realize very early on that the protagonist, Félicité in the short story is extremely simple-minded. She is an orphan, and she never has attended any sort of school. The only education she has comes from a geography book that is shown to her by a kid in the house where she is a servant. As one reads the novella, they may be frustrated by the lack of intellect that the main character offers. There is a scene in Flaubert’s work in which Félicité asks the lawyer of Madame Aubain, for whom she works, if it is possible for her nephew Victor to reach France from Cuba by land. The attorney responds by showing her a map of the world and pointing out the two countries. The attorney (and reader) can only laugh when she asks where her nephew’s house is on the map. It can be tough for the reader

The circle of abuse and abandonment stands out as one of the prominent themes throughout Boy, Snow, Bird. In fact, many of the relationships throughout this book address this issue both directly or indirectly. Many of the mother daughter relationships throughout this book remain blatant examples; Boy sending Snow away, Frank allowing Boy to think all her life that her mother left her, Frank’s girlfriend leaving Boy alone with the Rat Catcher, even Boy running away, all of these have elements of abandonment and abuse. But Charlie and Boy’s

An older couple has moved to the Alaskan wilderness to escape the reminders of their dead child. One day, they make a snowman, and after the snowman begins to melt, they notice the mittens and hat have disappeared, and they discover a young girl living in the woods. A strong fantasy overlays this harsh story, borrowed from the Russian fairytale “The Snow Maiden.” The tale exists in multiple layers. Is the child real? Or are the couple in the story suffering from cabin fever and have created a happy figure from the memory of their dead child?

The boy who travels with his father finds purpose to survive in believing that they will one day find the good guys. In this he believes that they themselves carry the torch of being the good guys and finds hope in that. Throughout the novel, the boy expresses his heart for helping others several times when he gives an old scraggly man on the road a can of peaches, pleading to help a man who got struck by lightning, and by being worried about a boy who was alone they had passed on the road. The boy evidently through his actions expresses a need to help others. When the boy spotted another little boy from the road, he ran over to where he had seen him and searched for him. When the Father saw that the boy ran off, he grabbed the boy by the arm and said “‘Come on. There’s no one to see. Do you want to die? Is that what you want?’” Sobbing, the boy replied, “I don’t care, I don’t care” (85). The boy sees the little boy as alone with nothing and he feels like it is his responsibility to his own

I like artsy boys. You know? Boys who like to paint, or skate, or sing, or draw, or write poetry or stories, or play an instrument, something like that. The type of boy who can talk about today’s racial issues and share poetry to suddenly switching to funny corny jokes and turning up to Chief Keef.