Freeway 280 Analysis

After reading the essays, “Lunch” and “Feet in Smoke”, the reader comes to realize the privilege and importance of family stories. Both essays portray a heartbreaking story of losing a member of the family either through death or losing them mentally.

In the poem Heritage by Linda Hogan, Hogan uses the tone of the speaker to demonstrate the shame and hatred she has toward her family, but also the desire for her family’s original heritage. The speaker describes each family member and how they represent their heritage. When describing each member, the speaker’s tone changes based on how she feels about them. The reader can identify the tone by Hogan’s word choices and the positive and negative outlooks on each member of the family.

The poem I chose for this project was, “What For” by Garrett Hongo. While reading the poem, the vast amount of images that were being created in my mind, captured my attention. This poem portrayed hope and love, informing me that the narrator had hope for the future and the love the narrator had for his or her family was significant. The overarching theme in “What For” is immigrant parents make continuous sacrifices for their children to have better lives. In the poem, the narrator describes the life of his or her father who is hardworking, trying to accomplish the American dream and support his family. After reading “What For”, I realized the importance of living. Several times in the poem, the phrase “I lived for” was used. The narrator lived

Everyone inherits something during life, whether it be money from a recently deceased relative or physical features from parents. Throughout the poem “Heritage” by Linda Hogan, the narrator remembers all the traits and lessons that she has garnered from her kin. A superficial reader of the poem might assume that the narrator is simply reflecting on said traits and lessons, but in reality she is actually attempting to illuminate and reconcile the differences in her life.

For this paper I will be discussing three poems. They are Wood Butcher by Norman Hindley, Behind Grandma 's House by Gary Soto, and Manners by Elizabeth Bishop. I will be examining the common theme I found throughout the three poems. I found that to be how the relatives teach lessons to their relation of a younger generation and the different approaches to their teaching.

Out of all the location poems we read, my favorite poem was, “San José: a poem,” by Cynthia Gomez. It is my favorite poem because of the voice that the poet gave the poem. From the voice of this poem I have concluded that the author created a character that feels resignation towards the change of his or her hometown. They see that the town is experiencing a lot of gratification, and this gratification is pushing the town towards a culture change. This could mean the loss of a way of life for many of the town’s residents, and these types of changes are never easy. In the beginning of the poem the author describes the culture of San José that the character is accustomed to. She states that the town is “a land of quinceañeras and taquierias and Our Lady of Sorrows Church.” From this phrase it can inferred that this town has a prominent Latin culture. Further into the poem, the poet states, “This land wants expresso to flow in its, veins, not blood, Wants to be made of foccacia dough instead of earth.” From this phrase it can be inferred that the new culture in the town is more hipster like. Her ending phrase is, “As a proud sign proclaims a new San José.” I find it impressive that poets can express their thoughts with a limited amount of words and they still make the poem engaging for their readers. This is exactly what Gomez did, she sought out to express an idea and she did this by putting words together in the most strategic way; creating an intriguing poem. For this

Pat Mora begins her poem, “Fences,” on a positive note, saying “Mouths full of laughter,” which creates a safe and harmless tone. In the next line, Mora uses the Spanish word ‘turistas’ (tourist in English) to indicate possibly the ethnicity of the speaker. It is not until the last few lines of the poem, however, when the reader gains a hint of the speaker’s social class; the speaker’s mother says, “It’s their beach,” after seeing the speaker’s younger sister running across the sand where the affluent tourists are. At only 19 lines, “Fences” is a relatively short poem, but Mora’s use of language packs so much meaning into every sentence, and thus creates this rich and symbolic display of social and class division.

From a personal, yet natural perspective, Tretheway chose to form the portrait of the Gulfport district over the years by mixing poets, prose, handwritten letters and a few childhood photographs. Without a doubt, poems, coupe with prose, have successfully flesh out this tragic anecdote, though requiring individual interpretations and a deep understanding of the author’s perception. In this sense, my own analysis allows me to pick three poems, which altogether hold an ultimately general theme: the powerful return of Gulf Coast society – through memorization, reflection and above all, recovery.

In light of a new life, for many immigrants traveling westward was an opportunity as much as a struggle. Pioneers from distant lands are lugging memories, hopes, and heritage, seeking land that holds a promise of freedom and opportunity. The darkness fills the skies, the uncompromising weather of the plains, while the winds blow and sweeps the soil across the open wilderness. Until the light dawns, soil becomes fruitful, and life prospers in the West, immigrants must express their heritage and familiarize themselves with the new land. For immigrants in the novel O Pioneers!, searching for identity is troublesome and often lonely, developing a familiar longing for their homeland and heritage. Heritage is like the

1. Jonathan Wacks’ in Pow Wow highway falls on lack of culture knowledge Nature Vs Nurture. we are not born with certain characteristics; we are developing our characteristic as the result of our environment. For example, just imagine in family born a baby, does he already know his history or culture and therefore there is a family who teach a child culture, explains him what is good what is bad. In Pow Wow Highway we can see different opinions and acts between characters. For example, Philbert even though he born in society where Indians were not that much, he had some kind of supernatural visions about Indian ancients and that goes back to Nature. On the other hand, Buddy, grow up in same area as Philbert but did not have a supernatural

In “America” by Richard Blanco, the poet depicts the struggles of an immigrant family in America, by showing the reader a not so typical Thanksgiving.

Every person on earth has some sort of family, even if it is: a long-lost uncle, a close sibling, or friends who have been through everything with you. Family, whoever that may be, shape parts of a person’s life, whether that be in minimal ways or huge ways. For authors Amy Tan, and Sherman Alexie, family impacted who they became, and what they wrote. Tan grew up in a Chinese household and wrote her own personal experience of what family means to her, while Alexie grew up on a Native-American reservation and wrote the struggles of finding peace with personal and family obstacles. “Two Kinds” and “War Dances” both had the purpose of letting others get a glance into their family culture while showing how family shaped their mindset among their

On Monday, October 10, the contractor for the I-75 Express Lanes Project will begin painting the sound barrier walls along the east side of I-75 between NW 170 Street and Florida’s Turnpike. Please note, in order to complete this work efficiently, tree limbs hanging on or near the sound barrier walls will be trimmed. Residents wanting to trim their tree limbs themselves must do so before the scheduled date mentioned above.

Whenever the federal government makes a proposal for expansion and improvement of publicly maintained roads and utilities, it evaluates which communities,private properties and businesses will be affected. As cities and towns are expanding and undertaking improvements to roadways, sewer and power lines, communications, and other systems, and to meet the demands of rise in population, the government must often secure or acquire access to private land.

Although Robert Hayden and Sylvia Plath both use vivid imagery to display their fathers, the way the authors use imagery is different. In Plath’s “Daddy,” she uses imagery to paint a dark picture of a Nazi who holds the title of her father. She uses imagery to compare her father to a black, confining shoe. She compares herself to a foot that has been living in the shoe for thirty years (Plath 290). The shoe metaphor represents her confinement under her father’s rule, but she is finally free. Because freedom from confinement is one of the main themes for “Daddy,” Plath’s use of imagery contributes to the theme of the poem. Conversely, Robert Hayden uses imagery in “Those Winter Sundays” to display his father’s work ethic. He uses works like, “cracked hands,” and “blueblack cold,” to show the conditions that his father went through because of his love for his children (Hayden 288). Hayden’s use of imagery helps to show the theme of “Those Winter Sundays,” regret for being unappreciative of a father’s love, by showing the obstacles that Hayden’s father went through for his son. The authors use of imagery helps display the overall themes of the poems by demonstrating their fathers’ character.