The Tale of the New Dawn Rose

Imagine you were attempting to succeed overcome challenges in your life. In the two text “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” and “Mother to Son.” It explains how life can be hard for anyone. The poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” is about how life is not easy and the poem “Mother to Son” is about how life is not easy for everyone. Both poems share the theme of there is no easy way in life, but they way the authors developed the theme was similar and different.

The Nurse provides a humorous anecdote from Juliet’s childhood, remembering how she fell over on her face, and how her husband had commented ‘Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit.’

Jane Yolen, in her novel Briar Rose, has used an allegory of Briar Rose or Sleeping Beauty as a metaphor to hide the real experiences and emotions suffered from the Holocaust during World War Two. The development and techniques employed within the story are extremely effective for the use of the allegory.

Marie Lu, a prominent teen author, has incepted many titles that have been consummated from her exceptional takes on 7 key Concepts of Style. They are the most noticeable in the excerpts “The Rose Society” and “The Young Elites”. Some examples of the 7 Key Concepts of Style are sentenced length and variation, detail and figurative language, sound devices, dialogue, tone, and irony. Marie Lu, the author, has excelled in the Key Concepts of Style with use of irony and detail/figurative language.

The pad of my thumb slides over my cheek, wiping away tears. I step closer, putting my hands on her hips, pulling her closer. “I don’t understand,” I admit. “Why are you so upset, Juliet? Why are you overreacting? I went to a bar, drank a little, and kissed a girl.”

(Juliette) "He kept me safe, but he is terribly hurt, we must help him!" She struggles to get up, using her father to regain her balance, but she falls. She is weak, unable to do anything. Tears begin to slowly stain her cheeks.

Juliet becomes upset when she

Their parents have the responsibility to watch over them, even if that means protecting them from themselves. Juliet’s parents failed in their duty as parents. They dealt her the very ultimatum

At first, Juliet is excited about the news, “Now, Nurse, what news? What hast thou there?”(III.2.34-35). Then she gets angry, dramatic and nervous, “What devil art thou that dost torment me thus? This torture should be roared in dismal hell” (III.2.44-45). Next, she is sad, “O, break, my hear, poor bankrupt, break at once!”

In Rosen’s article, she highlights the harsh effects of images on the coming generations. Supporting the same argument, Hymowitz discusses how history is destroyed by the images posted in the mass media websites. Rosen quotes Camille Paglia on one of her observations of her students “young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them” (10). Paglia says that “young people” are destructed by the images and their future becomes indefinite. In the past, children used to inherit culture, traditions and even behaviors which enable them to become experts in facing life’s obstacles such as lack of self esteem, making decisions and managing time.

Seeing Juliet had been like a sucker punch that woke him right up. At first he’d thought it was a hallucination created by this place to torture him further, but the fear on her face was so tangible he knew it couldn’t be a product of his imagination. But Juliet would never so much as harm a fly, and she’d always been so obedient to the church and her parents. What

The poem “The Rose That Grew from Concrete” by Tupac is about having dreams, ambitions and obtaining them, despite the circumstance one is put in. The rose disguises an individual who has been raised in burdensome ghettos, which is represented as the concrete. The rose is found “Proving nature’s laws wrong it learn 2 walk without having feet” henceforth no one expected one coming from the burdensome life of the ghettos to make something wonderful out of themselves. Subsequently “By keeping its dream it learned 2 breathe fresh air,” undoubtfully, as one focuses on their ambition, nothing, even the lack of a good people and surrounding will not get in their way. On the grand scheme, I have a dream as well, to complete university with very high

How dare you insight such deceit! You suggest Juliet forgave the man who killed her beloved cousin?! Juliet wept over her cousin’s death, and rejoiced for Count Paris’ arrival. You were forgotten, boy.

The nurse viewed Juliet as her own daughter, she only wanted her happy. In the text, the Nurse states

If you were born in dangerous place with even more dangerous people around you, would you still push through life and try as hard as someone without a set back would or would you take the easy way out and drown yourself in self-pity?