No Baby No You May Not Go Analysis

The mother?s detachment and idealism lead her to believe that the church is the safest place for her child. She feels that upon entering the church, the child will be removed from the world around her and the violence that engulfs it. This also points to the mother?s belief that remaining oblivious to the source of the civil unrest will make them disappear. When she tells the child to go to the church, she is in effect showing her feelings that attending church is the important thing to do and that the problems of the world outside will be resolved without any further effort.

This poem has numerous allusions to the civil rights movements. Such as “No No No I’m not going to move” (7) this quote alludes to when Rosa Parks would not give her seat to a white man. “…Montgomery... Birmingham…Selma…” (9) alludes to the freedom marches during the civil rights movement. “Four little girls” (9) this quote alludes to the 4 little girls killed sparking the civil rights movement. This

This story is about how two brothers from the Watts cross over the line of segregation that separates them from an area that is all-whites and all-american place and how they are off to the store to get groceries and when they try to come back they get beat up buy 5 teenagers on a bike. I think his purpose for writing this is to show that no matter where you are there will always be a place that bases everything off the race. The way that he uses connotation, syntax and imagery is to show the passion between how dependent

Cullen uses auditory imagery to draw his readers in to hear what he hears. The meaning of this poem is to take the reader on a journey of what the negro felt about

Marie was a showy Christian and only practiced her religion on Sundays. That is when she dressed up in all her diamonds, silks, and lace and went to her fashionable church and acted very religious. She was very pious on Sundays. (Kindle Edition, 2752) When Miss Ophelia asked St Clare if he is going to church, he replies with a no and Marie interjects with, “I do ever wish St Clare would go to church, but he hasn’t a particle of religion about him. It really isn’t respectable.” (Kindle Edition, 2767) As if because she was going to church, she was any more of a Christian than he. It is clear she only went because of how good it made her look. It is also clear that she went to church to listen to a preacher that bends words to fit her worldly society and makes slavery seem right by talking about seasons and how it is appropriate that some people be high and others be low. It never hurts to listen to a preacher that is of the same opinion regarding controversial subjects as you. She may not be so religious if she went to one of those horrible shouting Methodists churches, where she would likely hear some truth regarding God’s word and the true evil that was slavery. It would be better for her to be more like Missy Cassie, who didn’t proclaim to be a Christian at all, than a fake like she was.

the most important literary elements in the story. He takes a young black boy and puts

Ironically, it proves to be no sanctuary. Traditionally a ballad is whimsical however this poem has a mournful ending. Freedom, tragedy and oppression impact the reader by creating a mental state of sorrow and sympathy towards the mother when she finds out the little girl is dead. The poem creates a bigger picture of understanding the Civil Rights movement. Although the author focuses on one daughter, he honors all four deceased girls.

This is a poem that is mainly directed to the violence that was often experienced by children with an African-American ethnicity. The violence was mainly experienced on the streets where a majority of these children lived.

The central idea of this article is that you think that you never eaten a bug but you already did. The author supports this central idea by in paragraph 5 of the article “I Hate to Break it to You, but You Already Eat Bugs” says, “Staples like broccoli and canned

The article,”When School Was Scary” shows a mood of sympathetic by showing how the Little Rock Nine were bullied every day for the color of their skin. The poem,” The Ballad of Birmingham” shows a mood of sympathetic by using a little girl’s death as the center of what happened. It doesn’t say she died but the reader infers that the girl is dead based on the evidence shown. In the text,”When School Was Scary” it says,” White students were mean to the Little Rock Nine every day. They threw ink, books, and rocks at them.

Tim McGraw is a well known country singer and songwriter. The song I have chosen is a love song called ¨Don't Take the Girl¨.  This song is about a boy named Johnny and his journey with the love of his life. In the beginning of the song Johnny's father is taking him fishing, but a little girl wants to tag along. Johnny begins to beg his father to not let the girl go fishing. As the song goes on the relationship between the boy and girl progress from a friendship into a romance. During this transition the couple goes through stages, in each stage the couple is placed in a situation where johnny will give up anything and everything just as long as the girl is not harmed.

The way he incorporated the different characteristics of the poem are amazing. He uses tone, scene, and imagery to act as camouflage to hide the true purpose of the poem. The scene that is presented in this poem would make you think the son is just reliving a time he had with his father. For a reader to figure out the message that this poem has they must know how to look further than just the words in the poem. The fact that I know Ortiz was an Acoma Indian helps me get a better understanding of what kind of childhood he would write about. It also shows me that the father himself was taught the song of life when he was a boy and is just passing it down to his son. I believe in this poem the father was hard on his son, but all he ever wanted was the very best for him. The father tries to do everything in his power to teach his son lessons that will help him become a good man someday. I can make the assessment from my findings in the poem that the father was successful in doing so. You can tell by the demeanor that the narrator tells this story that he appreciates his father, and values the lessons he was taught. So, next time you read this poem just don’t read the words. Put yourself in the son’s shoes and relate this poem to the life that you live. Doing this will help you understand that this poem is not just about a song or story, but that this poem is about how an individual

The authors purpose in “Goodbye to All That” is to inform the reader of her view of New York, how it has changed throughout the years, what impact it had on her, and why she no longer lives there. Throughout her narrative, she herself is trying to answer the question of why she left New York. She views New York as a thing she “loves”. She remembers so many of the things she used to do there and explains why seeing or smelling something, such as the smell of jasmine brings her back to the memories of New York. She writes in the first person point of view so that the reader can understand what she feels and why she feels that way. She is able to share her personal thoughts that way as well. The author uses imagery to show her thoughts about

Under those circumstances when a person loses someone to gun violence, get threatened or is seriously injured they can become depressed. A mother interviewed in the video “Will I Be Next?” expresses “When you lose a child you lose a lot, you lose a lot in your spirit”. Likewise I know how she feels because, I get emotional every time I talk about the friends that I lost and my step dad. The pain runs so deep and it never stop, hurting. It always feels like a big chunk of my heart is missing and life will never be the same. After his passing, I felt so weak, all my life; I watched over my little brother and protected him. But when his father passed away, I couldn’t do anything to protect him. I realized that I couldn’t fix his broken heart

The poem is written in the first person point of view which helps make the poem feel personal and more relatable. The entire poem has a joyful feel until, as a reader you realize the event occurs during segregation and the beach appears empty because they are the only black people there.