Swaziland Research Paper

To This Day is a non-fiction poem by Shane Koyczan. I think that the depiction of the tree contains symbolism. When it shows the tree with the flower on it when it says “grafted onto a different family tree” the flower symbolizes how he survived(Koyczan).

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. She came from a rather large family who moved quite frequently. Mary loved to draw and no matter the location or where she lived, she would always find the time to draw. It wasn’t very long until she was interested in more than just drawing. As soon as she discovered that there were more objects, such as canvas and cloth for oil painting, to work with, she decided to try painting. Painting was just the beginning for Mary and soon after had the dream of one day settling in Europe where she would become a painter for a living. Not only was Mary very stubborn, she was also very determined to make her dream a successful reality.

The tree would love to play with the boy. From page 5 through 10 it shows how much the boy and the tree would play together. It shows all the things they would do when the boy was younger. "...he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and play king of the forest. He would climb up her trunk and swing from her branches and eat apples. And they would play hide-and-go-seek." It is like how a mother and son play a lot together when he is young. All the things the boy and the tree would do, the mother and son do also. A mother also takes care of her child.

The pear tree is her inspiration and her first true desire. She longs to bud and blossom, like the tree, and cannot wait to discover herself and all the wonders of the world.

At first she tries her hardest to make it look like a tree but it never comes out to look like a good one. The art teacher had said “you will spend the rest of the year learning how to turn your object into a piece of art” (12,Anderson) which means the object is going to be growing like how Melinda is growing by the end of the year. Her growth is shown through this tree as she continues to redraw it and gets better at drawing towards the end of the story. The tree is a symbol of Melinda getting stronger and becoming able to communicate her

A Chinese plum, Prunus mume, blossoms in the cold of late winter and early spring. It is a classic Asian aesthetic of five petals. “It manages in the

Janie spends the spring afternoon in West Florida under the blooming pear tree attempting to uncover a mystery behind its attractive presence. "In a way ever since the first tiny bloom had opened. It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery". In light of the scenario, Hurtson points to an achievement to where Janie can solve a "riddle" to the magnificence of the pear

In the novel, Speak by Laurie Anderson, A Tree is a symbolism that represents Melinda's current moods and thoughts throughout the scenarios in the story. The main character traits of this story are Melinda's thoughts, emotions, and reactions to high school and within the people in it.

This one is not perfectly symmetrical. The bark is rough. I try to make it look as if initials had been carved in it a long time ago one of the lower branches is sick. If this tree really lives someplace, that branch better drop soon, so it does not kill the whole thing"(196). This tree shows that Melinda is beginning to feel better about her situation. This is after she talked to Rachel about Andy, what he did to her, why she called the cops. The one dead branch represents how at first when Melinda tells Rachel about Andy, she does not believe her. Rachel thinks Melinda is jealous. However at prom Rachel leaves Andy because she hears from other girls what Andy has done to them. Melinda was not

The tree represents Gene’s growth in maturity and age from being a teenager who is frightened by the magnitude of the tree to an adult who looks at it as unthreatening and small. Whilst revisiting the tree as an adult, Gene utters that the tree reminds him of the enemies of childhood that, once faced again, seem insignificant (14). When Gene is reflecting upon the first time he jumped off of the tree, he states the tree “flooded [Gene] with a sensation of alarm all the

Many beekeepers set beehives near these trees. The bees make a fine honey called tupelo honey from the tree’s flowers. The fruit of the tree can be eaten too. People use it in place of limes. The fruit ripens in the summer, but it may be fresh on the branches through the late fall. At that time, it is an important food for birds and squirrels.

Simple bushes bloomed berries of all sorts, every tree blossomed branches full of fruit, and even the beauteous flowering stalks grew great harvests at their roots.

Mary believes that you need a little push from someone close to follow your dream then hope will come. Mary is the sister of Junior. When Junior left to go to Reardon outside the rez, Mary felt a calling to follow her dream. Mary lived in her basement for years until Junior “moved.” Then she made the crazy decision to marry and move to Montana (page 89.) Mary followed that calling and found hope in living out her dream of living a romance novel. Junior figures this out on page 90 when he said,

Marylin is a cheerleader who cares too much about makeup and her hair. “Marylin was now a middle-school cheerleader and cared too much about her hair… she was a big believer that life could be just the way it looked in girls’ magazines, where you and all your Best Friends Forever got together before school started and made crafty decorations for your lockers and traded fingernail polish tips... Marylin believed that life could be sparkly all the time... It just took a little extra work and

Book Review: The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusions by Jonathan Adams and Thomas McShane.