Great poem. definitely needs some rhyming. i have an idea for just one of your lines
“Why is being me, a crime to you?
Does my skin color sicken them too?”
also maybe
“We all shed the same tears
We all have the same fears
But people treat me different
all across the hemisphere”
As the story opens, Hattie Owen is in her home. Her parents have gone
out for the evening, but she isn't alone because the family operates a
boarding house and Mr. Penny and Miss Hagerty are both upstairs. Hattie
is watching home movies. She's pleased that her father trusted her to do
everything, from setting up the screen to feeding the reels of film
through the projector. She says that she turned twelve the previous
summer and that she will forever look at the summer as a turning point
in her life because of Adam. She says that she dates things as "before
Adam" or "after Adam".
As the movie begins to play, Hattie sees Angel Valentine, who was
also a boarder over the summer when Adam came. Angel is standing on the
front porch of the boarding house, waving toward
This is because Jim Crow laws are the laws of racial segregation in the United states that existed from just after the Civil War up until the mid-sixties which is same as the 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee.
The description of the 1900s shows us that achieving perfection of societies is impossible. Progress in science and technology was no enough to improve the lives of poor people. Besides, there were wars, impoverishment and lots of diseases that caused lots of casualties.
Dystopian literature insists on identifying the flaws of the political systems and magnifies them. Dystopian authors encourage their readers to examine contemporary political and social structures but writers always relate to these issues as something bad or horrifying.
