Small Objects: a Literary Analysis of Lullabies for Little Criminals

she gives birth to her stillborn child, she gives life to a starving man by breast-feeding

begins to grow up a little and realizes she is now seeing her parents otherwise, almost with a new

From experience, I know that when I was a little kid I would enjoy playing with empty boxes and imagining that it was a house or a weird toy. At this point, the readers are now imagining the infant from the beginning of the poem grow into a toddler.

On Night 14, they visit the mother at the hospital again. But unfortunately, an announcement for Dr.Blue comes on the speakers and a nurse comes in to tell the family "it doesn't look good".

Objects can prove to be the cause of some of the most impactful features or events in someone’s life. “Once he finished work on the Prospector and we struck it rich, he’d start work on our Glass Castle.” (Walls 25). The Prospector was a symbol of aspiration, she wanted to have a more exciting and fulfilling life. Although it also represents lies and distrustfulness because her father never actually worked on the Prospector. Instead, he went out and got drunk. The Glass Castle is quite impactful in Jeannette’s life, it gave her hope for a better life. However it’s not just that, it’s confidence in her father. That he will provide for her and create a good life for her, despite the drinking and other horrible habits he has developed. Jeannette

II. The doll symbolizes the clay toys the indigenous children received from their parents, reflecting their childhood; the exchange of gifts parallels my own childhood.

“The mother removes her purse from her shoulder and rummages through its contents: lipstick, a lace handkerchief, an address book. She finds what she’s looking for and passes a folded dollar over her child’s head to the man who stands and stares even though the light has changed and traffic navigates around his hips… He does not know his part. He does not know that acceptance of the gift and gratitude are what makes this transaction complete… The mother grows impatient and pushes the stroller before her, bearing the dollar like a cross. Finally, a black hand rises and closes around green” (paragraphs 3-5).

Every person has on object in their life that is very precious to the, for me, it is my pearl necklace. They are small and round and a lustrous cream color with a pink sheen. They have a tiny gold clasp that holds the necklace together. My pearls tell a story than no other personal artifact can: my heritage. The pearls symbolized tradition and womanhood in my family’s life, and they were to be worn with dignity and pride. Every holiday, the girls of the family accessorized their outfits with the pearls given by our grandmother. They were something we all had in common: the thread that linked our generations together. I recall looking down at my Nana’s casket and I could almost hear her voice whispering

In one’s life they are faced with many situations that will make them question where they stand morally. One’s own morality, and the ethical decisions they make are affected my many different factors that all come together to determine paths we follow. In both Erdrich’s I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy and Thammachot’s Nightfall on the Waterway interactions with a other’s lead to the main characters facing ethical dilemmas, showing how a person’s morality comes one’s personal life experiences, and living conditions. The narrator in Erdrich’s, I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy, because of his past, and interactions with others demonstrates his inability to be in a position to make carful moral decisions that will have a lasting

The next interesting item that the kids find is a very expensive paperweight. While discussing it, Miss Moore is sure to convey that while the object is very expensive, it’s purpose is very trivial. “”This here costs $480 dollars,” say Rosie Giraffe. So we pile up all over her to see what she pointing out. My eyes tell me it’s a chunk of glass cracked with something heavy, and different-color inks dripped into the splits,

When given a “gorgeous Add-a-Pearl necklace”, she quickly losses it the following year. The tone that Sister has while recounting this memory is of disbelief and anger. There’s jealousy because Stella-Rondo has received a beautiful gift, but scorn when she “threw it away” as if it wasn’t worth her time. The principle literary device is this use of narrative for characterization, to establish who Stella-Rondo is, and to explain why Sister resents her sibling. This gives the reader an example of Stella-Rondo’s attitude, and these simple two sentences easily paints an image of a spoiled child who does not care for what they have received and to unappreciated

With all her suffering, Lucy was awakened to all the glories of living to which we remain unaware of so much of the time. Lucy also exhibits a sensible, mature understanding of her father. She realizes he left her alone during her terrifying and traumatizing treatments with a completely heartless and hateful physician only because of his own inability to deal with and accept the type of pain his own daughter was experiencing. Through these extraordinary events, the family, overwhelmed by shock and shame, abandoned Lucy emotionally.

In the literary work “Little Things”, Raymond Carver expresses a lot of negative emotions such as truculence and underlying violence. Promptly, Carver introduces the readers to a series of imagery that establish the dark setting and as well as the outcome of the short story. Known for his minimalistic style, the author applies a limited omniscient point of view between his unnamed characters in order to give his piece the same tension one would feel in an argument. With his choice of words, Carver then uses the readers perception of the baby to mirror the evident reality of what happens to those who are innocently caught in the middle.

Richard Rogers’ song “Favorite Things” talks about how the narrator’s favorite things make them feel better when times aren’t the best. People often have a memento from childhood that they keep throughout their life, such as a stuffed animal or a tea set. These possessions represent a memory or event from one’s life -whether it be from early on or from later in life- which in turn remind them of the feelings from the times they received it. These tokens from their early life often mean the world to them, and this is an accurate description of how I feel about my “Blankie.” My blanket is a source of comfort, every small imperfection has a memory behind it, and these impressions make the blanket unique to my life and my experiences. While most of the details that reside on my blanket are small and often remain unnoticed, each one makes it more important to me.

Observations of the earliest experiences of a healthy toddler are expressed by its relationship with its first possession which is always a transitional object. Transitional objects also belong to the realm of illusion which is the basis of initiating development. This stage is made possible by the capacity of a mother to let the toddler have the illusion that what it creates really exists (Winncott, 1953).