Who Is Carolyn Forché's The Colonel '?

The speaker starts the poem by describing her mother, who was a white settler. Hogan worded this in a way that the reader could interpret as a negative connotation, which was later made clearer when Hogan pronounced the Grandmother’s hatred toward the white settlers.

The Colonel by Carolyn Forche was a prose poem. It describes a trip that the narrator has taken with his or her friend to the Colonel’s house and have a meal with his family. The Colonel is not evil, he had no intention of harming the narrator or the narrator's friend. At the start of the story, the Colonel’s wife tends to the narrator by giving them “coffee and sugar” (Forche 1). The wife is caring for the narrator indicating that they are welcomed and invited guests in their house. In the event that the narrator and his friend were not supposed to be in their house, the wife would have had a different reaction since. If there was an intruder, offering coffee to them would not be a natural response. Humans have a fight or flight response to

Over history many people have risked their life for the greater good of other people. In the novel Audacity by Melanie Crowder, Clara a Russian Jewish girl coming to America is going to do just that. It is the year 1903, and many people are fleeing their homelands to come to America looking for a better place to live and succeed. Clara wants to be an independent woman who can study and become a doctor. When coming to America she is timid but, still has dreams of making great of herself and go to college. These dreams are difficult to keep when she is forced to work. She goes to the sweatshops and finds all the horrible things going on in the shops, which causes Clara to become disillusioned. This creates a determination to change the rights of the working woman.

Samantha Kay Wieland 7th Hour Mrs. Houselog Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Elie Wiesel, author of the memoir night, the fictional character, Equality 7-2521 from Anthem, and Ayn Rand, author of Anthem, are three people that I am writing this paper about. They all were subjugated to the atrocities of life under collective/communist rule & surviving such oppression and inhumanity, these three individuals prospered. All three became beacons of hope for countless others.

A literary device used in Jane Kenyon’s poem is selective perception .The first instance of selective perception is in the first two lines of the poem when the narrator says, “He suggests pancakes at the local diner, followed by a walk in search of mayflowers….” This is selective perception because the wife is only seeing what she wants to see, which is a husband who tells her exactly what he wants. The husband can be conceived as demanding because of the line, “He suggest…” Though the wife at least knows exactly what he wants. Thats why when she starts seeing another side of her husband it is so scary for her. She is starting to see a husband who is not direct or honest with her. In lines 4 and 5 the narrator says, “their cars pulled close along the sandy road…” This line could represent the selective perception beginning to crumble, like the road. The lie the husband created is starting to reveal itself. By the end of the poem the wife’s selective perception is gone. This is evident from the line, “The gather itself is not what astounds her, but the casual accomplishment with which he lied.” The fog has been lifted and she is starting to see the person she married.

The novel of Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, contributes to controversial subjects in society that are still relevant today. Some issues addressed by Rand in her novel include: equality, social hierarchy, individuality, and government. Throughout the duration of reading Anthem the issues in which Rand makes relevant are not obvious, but more so discussed through conflicts and situations that the main character, Equality 7-2521, encounters. Although many of the altercations that present social issues are provided by either other characters singlehandedly or by a group of the characters in alliance, some of the main issues that arise in this novel are presented within the main character himself.

The first time she tells a lie in the poem is the place where she gets her clothes. She had told all her friends that she gets her clothes from Maison Blanche line number 13 and line 14. It says, “I could act like my homemade dresses came straight out the window of Maison Blanche.” She says the clothes are homemade which would be the truth, however she then goes on to say they are designer.

When Equality 7-2521 begins the novel by saying, “It is a sin to write this.” he has a different moral assessment of writing than at the end of the novel. Throughout Anthem, Equality’s actions affect how he views his society and the people around him. By the end of the story, Equality begins to realize that the government and society that he lives in might not be so perfect, and it might not be a sin to write. Equality’s eventual moral assessments of his sins are correct and are supported by; his growth throughout the story, the themes of independence developed in the novel and Ayn Rand’s concepts concerning communism. These are the three ideas that will be developed and explained in this paper.

The novel by William Bennett Turner examines First Amendment cases throughout history, discussing Yetta Stromberg, Dannie Martin, Raymond Procunier, Earl Caldwell, and others, describing the impact of Communists, Jehovah 's Witnesses, prison wardens, and others that have impacted First Amendment rights in the United States.

Anthem by Ayn Rand is a dystopian novel written in the 1930’s. The novel displays a society that confines the human mind and body. The rights humans are restricted to what the government believes is fit. The characters are ruled by collectivism and communist. Communism is the belief that the government should own everything. Collectivism is the belief of a superior group that controls society. Rand reveals the nature of the main character’s society and the values of the main character, Equality 7-2521 by writing this excerpt of the novel in the character’s perspective in an assertive tone and beginning with the rights and wrongs of their society.

It shifts to her mother’s past in the fourth line. “I was eight years old and the Japs were.” The poem shifts to a time when the mother was young and still a girl and when the Japs were in Canada.

Carolyn Forche, author of The Colonel, writes this poem in a prose style technique. Prose poetry is a communicative stye that sounds natural and uses correct grammatical structure, but refrains from employing rhythmic arrangement ("Prose Examples and Definition..."). The focus of the poem begins with an ordinary family and the details of a routine day; however, this quickly develops with the sudden detail “a pistol on the cushion beside him” and induces a major tonal shift. Forche commences objective imagery to exhibit the negative connotations the Colonel possesses and compares this to the normal lifestyle of the family. Readers of the poem may overlook the importance of blunt imagery and prose style poetry; however, a closer analysis allows

Freedom. A goal. A liberty. A myth. So many descriptions for a single concept. Yet the main idea is the same: to be free of restrictions, free to be whatever you wish. It is a life necessity, one that was, unfortunately, and still is, restricted throughout history, resulting in many chasing after its acquisition. Humans currently live in a time, in several nations, where freedom is a right, a necessity of life freely given. However, throughout history, freedom has been kept to only a minority, resulting in individuals struggling to change society for freedom to be distributed to the majority of people, a battle that took years, centuries to accomplish. This fight for true autonomy took many forms, both violent and peaceful. Literary works, in particular, have been major agents to this cause, serving as both reminders of those struggles and remembrance to readers of the endeavors those authors sought to accomplish. Two particular works, The Awakening by Kate Chopin and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, spearheaded movements for freedom by tackling the prejudice of gender roles, expressing through their novels’ characters and experiences the arguments for individual freedom and the challenges that must be conquered to achieve those goals for future generations.

Baym, Nina, and Robert S. Levine. "Sojourner Truth." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013. 775-76. Print.

Injustice is a prevailing theme in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Tubman, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, Spider Woman 's Web by Susan Hazen-Hammond and Great Speeches by Native Americans by Bob Blaisdell; the diligence of several characters have made it possible for them to preserve and overcome injustices. America has not always been a land of the free for colored people; white settlers destroyed the meaning of freedom when they robbed the land from the indigenous people. Freedom was also destroyed when slaves in America were not treated as full human beings. Despite of many obstacles the oppressed faced, their thirst for freedom and determination helped them in reaching their goals.