Lullabies For Little Criminals Analysis

In the poem “The Child’s Sight” by Hy Sobiloff, the speaker portrays a reflective mother, who begins to recall her own childhood days while spending fond time with her child and gains back the innocence within herself. The speaker is reminiscent of how as a child, she has the freedom to say anything as she please and no one will feel offended in any way possible. She sees her child “[saying] what [he see] when [he sees] it,” while she does not on the other hand (2). She feels restrictive in her adulthood environment, while her child is living life freely. In addition, as the speaker spends more time with her child, she is gradually regaining the innocence of a child within herself. She is “learning the child’s way [as she picks] up wood pieces

After analyzing Lullabies for little criminals in a feminist theory lens, it becomes clear that this novel is based on the portrayal of women In a male dominated society. Men are described as stronger or more important in the story than women are. Baby meets a lot of women in her 2 year life span in the novel, but they never make as much of an imprint in her life as the males do. She has no mother and so you think that she would be out looking for someone who can be a role model for her. Instead because of the way her society is built she is forced into something that the men think is normal, and that all the women seem to be doing. Her father albeit being a junkie has high hopes for his daughter and doesn 't want her to be seen as a “whore”, yet even he can 't stop the pressure of society being put on her.

The second experience that Baby has which causes her loss of innocence is being placed in foster care while her father is in the hospital. First of all, while Baby spends time in foster care she is exposed to many sad, disheartening realities about life and her own childhood. Baby is forced to come to terms with many sad realities and she sees things that children should never see while living in foster care. For one, she watches as a boy is beaten up by some bullies and then yelled at by his uncle. After that, the boy sinks into a deep depression, showing Baby a sad side of life. Also, the boy’s uncle asks Baby “...Is he [her dad] still selling weed?” (33). Baby is forced to come to terms

In the first section of the novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, there are five major points that relate to the plot that include the external conflict, the main character’s development, the introduction of main characters, the setting, and the major theme in the novel. Firstly, the novel starts with developing the main character - an innocent twelve-year-old girl named Baby - that sets the basis for the rest of the novel. Baby tells her story by using first person, which enables readers to connect with Baby’s innermost thoughts as she moves from one bad situation to another. In addition, another influential character is introduced which is Baby’s heroin addicted father, Jules. His character slowly develops by focusing on his heroin addiction

Ray Bradbury uses imagery of where the characters are and what the atmosphere is like to develop that it looks nice, but the parents can't see the potential disadvantages that lie ahead. For example, when the author says, "...presently and African veldt appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in

In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.

It allows the reader to have a picture or thought in their head through knowing how extreme it is with a woman in labor and the whole birth process as a whole.

Again the danger of parenting is depicted through walls’ use of symbolism. Jeannette being a child (three years old) and having to cook and take care of herself is substandard. Having to be surrounded by hardship and

Droplets rippled the newly formed puddle, a flurry of mist skimmed down the canvas umbrella as the Bessons reached the steps… and still, he watched. Hands grappled at her arms pulling her urgently into Delivery Room A. Hours later the couple beam over their newborns. “What about names?”, inquired the nurse, “ Eugene after his grandfather, and Myra after my mother.” she replied as the Bessons became locked in each others gaze. The moment was perfect… and still, he watched. The young babies’ hospital stay was prolonged a short while by cause of a small sickness… and he planned. As their time tallied to nearly a week, he took action. Moving swiftly under the dimness of the hour the figure swept in and out of the hospital in a premeditated

For the scene where Hamlet kills Polonius I have selected the song, “I Shot the Sheriff.” Towards the beginning of the song it says this, “Yeah! All around in my home town, They're tryin' to track me down” The man singing the song is telling his story in how people are trying to track him down to arrest him. It shows how Cloudius and the rest of the court are trying to track down Hamlet for killing Polonius. Next, he goes on to defend himself and make a claim. “ But I swear it was in selfdefence.” While, Hamlet never explicitly speaks the words, self defence, he does go about it as if it was not a big deal and shouldn’t be questioned. Later in the song a line of lyrics go, “I shot the sheriff…” This is the man, who is singing the song, admitting

Imagery plays a role when it comes to writing any literary piece as it helps to create a either positive or negative image in the reader's mind on what the author is descripting. In this novel, the type of imagery is being used is negative as the book is a journey of Esther inner conflict with being pure and maintaining the perfect image. However, the main image in this book is being anxious about death. This first appears when Buddy gives Esther a glimpse of the hospital life, which includes a look of a glass tube filled of dead babies. What is shocking is how calm she is when she saw the babies. Nevertheless, when saw the birth of a baby she was grossed out on how they looked and how the mother had to be drugged in order for the birth to be painless. The book then centers it’s imagery about

“To Katherine: At Fourteen Months” by Joelle Biele is a mother’s declaration to her one-year-old daughter. The author, Joelle Biele blends the simplistic world of a 14-month-old Katherine and creates descriptive narrative of a child on a quest for constant discovery. Through the authors expressive language Katherine’s plight shifts from that of a child and blends to treat Katherine as some sort of Celestial mad scientist trying to understand the world as she grows. A unique union of diction, symbolism, and metaphors are structured by author Biele to pronounce the action of a fourteen-month baby Katharine.

It’s easy to realize that the mother doesn't know or understand her daughter very well because the only time she can describe her is when she is a baby. She says, “She was a beautiful baby,” and then continues to give attributes of her daughter in past tense because she’s not sure that they still apply to her now, “She loved motion, loved light, loved color and music and textures” (Olsen 35). The mother has comfort in knowing these few things about Emily because she knows that her daughter will still have a bright future because of her wit these artistic

In the next stanza Plath details rich metaphors that confirm the relationship between the mother and infant is anything but warm. In fact, this stanza leaves readers distraught and somewhat puzzled by the confusing images the mother uses to describe the birth of her new baby. The delivery room is described as a museum, and the baby is depicted as a

When I listened to this song, my first thought was that the subject of the song was just trying to earn the sympathy of the audience. I thought, well then don’t do the crime if you are going to complain about the time. But then I listened to it a second and third time, and I realized that the lyrics are not a bid to garner sympathy, rather the subject of the song is trying to convey that he is not just a criminal, he is human as well. He’s expressing the fact that while he has made significant mistakes, and he is paying for them, he is a human with feelings, something society tends to overlook. He has dreams, emotions, and a conscience that bothers him, despite the fact that people think he is empty inside. Bemoaning the idea that no matter