<span>it's easy to take certain freedoms for granted: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to wear white shoes after Labor Day. Many times, we don't notice our freedoms until they're gone. This is what happens to the people of Iran in the 1980s, when Marjane Satrapi's story begins. Revolutionaries who speak out against the regime are executed; everyone is expected to dress as though they are Muslim fundamentalists, especially women who need head-to-toe coverings and a veil.</span>
In Brueghel's painting, the fall of Icarus is happening in the back; no one is even noticing it. Brueghel's painting shows that how a tragedy may not even be noticed by those who are not directly affected by it.
Auden translates Brueghel's painting a little differently, however. To Auden, the fall of Icarus IS being noticed by the plowman and the sailor; Auden says that they are too busy to deal with the disaster and get on with their work. Auden says that Icarus falling is "not an important failure" to them.
Auden's interpretation of the painting is therefore much more negative than Brueghel's initial work.
Answer: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo is a novel written in short poems. The story is told from the first person point of view of Xiomara Batista through her sophomore year of high school. She lives with her twin brother Xavier and her parents in New York.
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Use it describing the way someone rode something. "But Tait had none of Tillotson's gentleness, and he rode roughshod over the obstacles in his way." (That sentence is from yourdictionary.com by the way :) )
