interesting. The appearance, actions, speech and thoughts of their

characters illustrate most stories. In the stories and poems that I

read: a song in the Front Yard, Girls, Mother and son, A conversation with my father and His story. Each of them expresses their point of view through a female point of view. All of these poems and story had different theme, but in the end there, they were revealed the same feeling. The poem " A song in the Front Yard" is a simple expression poem which at first glance seems to be about a girl is much over protected by her parents that in turn lead her to make a wrongful decision on her future.

The symbolism is the main tool used to discover what the author is trying to say. I like this poem because the symbolism causes a greatdeal of think and analyzing to understand it. In the first stanza " Iwant to peek at the back. Where it's rough and untended and hungry weedgrows" This may mean that she is, for once, wanted to see how the outside world really likes. Eventhough, it is not safe and wonderful as the world that she is living in now. " A girl gets sick of a rose" means she is tired of how her parents babying her. She ju

the author of story " Girls" wrote it with one intention and that is trying to tell people of how hard it is to be born as a girl. When you read the story, it makes you feel like you are reading a regulation book of some company. As you read through the story you will see that there is no period at all. So what the author tries to get at is that these are many things that we, girls, had to listen and do each and everyday. In addition, the author uses a language through a commanding voice to explain the suppression that girls that had to subject to in a family. So As the narrator wrote in this short story, she strives to become more individualistic, she feels pressure to change into society's image of a woman. In order to do so, however, she must change herself spiritually to meet the demands of others. In particular, the narrator states; A girl was not, as I had supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become.

children the many hardships life may behold. This gives the child a better direction in means of future obligations.

environment is good for her. However, because of their method of dictating their daughter life that reversibly yields an unfavorable result.

st wants to have alittle more space, perhaps a little more freedom.

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As the first stanza of " His story" begins, the poem's speaker wastes no time in revealing her driving motivation. Telling how it feels like to be live in the family where people always think that you are the root of all the troubles in the family. The author also attempts to tell her pain through the voice of her father. The symbol "a crooked star" means that she was born in the wrong family and perhaps, at the wrong time. On the second stanza "It is an ancient fate" means that what happen to her now had had happened in her family line dating way back to her great grandmother. The line "who no one came for And no one chased away" means that's she is now old enough to have a family of her own but still live with her family. Then in the same stanza she starts talking about all the thing that happen to and done by all the women that related to her. The third and fourth stanzas basically describe how each women had done to disgrace the family value. Notice that all the stories ab!

line such as this, one cannot help but think that the poet must been having

poem is filled with bad decisions making one after another. However, this

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Front Yard, Girls Mother, , outside world, mother son, tone poem, song front yard, finally realizes mom, song front, poem mother, realizes mom, finally realizes, it's fine, grandmother's mother, front yard,
Approximate Word count = 1661
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)