Universal Themes<span> in Literature. Definition of </span>Theme<span>. The </span>theme<span> of a piece of fiction is its controlling idea or its central insight. In order to figure out </span>theme<span>, a reader must ask what view of life a work supports or what insight into life in the real world it reveals.</span>
Similes comparing the passion to a avalanche and a prairie fire
The tone at the beginning of Birthplace is shameful and disappointed. It reflects the way her mother felt when she gave birth to her and saw that she had a girl and not a boy. This point in the poem, however, radiates strength and reflects the narrator's want to fight against injustice. The line "I’ll peel from the wall that ashamed look of my mother" says that she is no longer ashamed of herself for being born a certain way. She's saying that when she returns to her birthplace, she won't see it as the place where her mother's greatest disappointment was born. It is now a place where a strong woman was born.
C because he has frustration the entire time
