Jin Wang
Chin-Kee/The Monkey King
Wei-Chen Sun
They are both written in first person, they share conflicts. <span>First, in similarity, they lived in close time periods (both lived in 20th century) and were very poor. They went through a lot of struggle but in the end they achieved a lot. They both share similar conflicts. These are both memoir stories written in first person and talk about being young children.
In difference, No Gumption is about a boy who delivers newspapers to help support his family and to learn how to have a job. His mother wants him to have gumption so he won't end up the way his father was. In Barrio Boy, it is about an immigrant who goes to school and learns English. I don't think the story ever talks about him getting a job.</span>
A. Because you can picture it while the others are harder to picture.
Answer:
1. What happens in "Birches" by Robert Frost?
Robert Frost had written in his poem describing what he sees in bent birch trees. He said he thinks that they are bent by the boys swinging off of them, but he knows that they are bent by the ice storms. Robert had his own vision of the trees other than the real reason. He used his imagination. The theme of this poem was a way to escape rationality or the truth of the adult world. Like the boy is climbing the tree, a way towards heaven, a place where his imagination can be free, only for a moment.
How do the poem’s language, images, and symbols convey its themes to readers?There are a lot of language types in writing. Such as humor, Puns, structure and repetition, and Verse and Prose. The most suitable language for the “birches” would be blank verse. Blank verse is poems written with no rhyme. It is a sad story but it does have that twist that makes it have a more fascinating picture to it.
Do you prefer this type of modernist poem or more experimental ones? Why?
Yes, because it seems to me more real and not affected by unnecessary decorations.
Explanation:
Option D is correct. Most interpretations agree that in Metamorphosis, the Kafkaesque describes a situation of Gregor struggling with his family after the transformation. Gregor is the one carrying with his kafkaesque existence and learning how to put up with himself, but his family rejects him. After Gregor dies, his family feels relieved, rather than sad.
