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I believe the work I put into my outline is what allowed me to write this essay so well. I am also really proud of the arguments I have put forward. I could improve on integrating quotes a little better and fixing my awkward sentences.
Anyone should read this book, because of the narration. Death is funny and serious. He puts a twist to the story and gives us a new perpectives on each side of the story.
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A New Beginning
Dear future daughter,
I must tell you something special,
It’s essential to deviate from society.
A mindless civilisation,
forced to fear life,
creating toys that destroy.
Blocking away the serenity,
taking all self-identity,
hiding most lenity.
Dear future daughter,
I must tell you something special,
It’s essential to plant a rose.
Red like a berry,
Leaves humming birds whistling,
And joyous winds gushing.
Beauty as pure as the sun,
So brilliant,
In deceiving the man.
Dear future daughter,
I must tell you something special,
It’s essential to be fearless.
These days we all dread ‘booms’,
Wiping out multiple families,
Our own creation.
In this new technology era,
More are found dead than alive,
Only the strongest survive.
Dear future daughter,
I must tell you something special,
Nature always preservers.
Oceans swarm over top of buildings,
Hot plates shake our ‘home’,
Animals chase after enemies.
The earth will finally find its place,
Man will be gone,
And the rose will flourish.
Dear sweet daughter of mine,
Life is blissful and filled with laughter,
You mustn’t let the man destroy your home.
My poem is about a mother informing her future daughter to be herself inside a totalitarian environment that has taken away individuality and destroyed everything around it. Her advice is to plant a rose. The rose symbolizes a balance of nature and with its beauty it can express promise, hope, love and new beginnings. The man symbolizes us and all that we have created/destroyed. It represents the people in a totalitarian society. When the mother states that: “life is blissful and filled laughter,” she is talking about how it should be and how it used to be. I used repetition to add value to what the “mother” was saying. I added similes to help create a picture in the reader’s mind and a better understanding of the poem. The rhymes, alliterations and the assonances created a nice ring to the poem when it is being read. Finally, I used onomatopoeia to make my poem a little different from others.
In the I Am NOT Black, You Are NOT White video, Prince Ea recites his slam poem about labels. He explains that the colour of our skin doesn’t make us who we are. Yes, it is a part of us, but it’s what’s on the inside that matter’s, not the superficial labels that we humans give to almost everyone we see. He was not able to choose his race, he was taught to be “black” and we were taught to call him “black”. We all call ourselves something different whether it be “white”, “Asian”, “nerd”, “jock” or anything in between. Those labels aren’t who we are, they are what we call ourselves. He says that since we were little we were “forced feed these labels”. They may be the tiniest bit true, but they are skin deep, not who we truly are on the inside. He compared our bodies to cars, because we would never confuse our car with ourselves, but we often confuse ourselves with our bodies, like “black” or “white”. He called the dealership our society and our bodies are our cars, except we didn’t, we couldn’t, choose the “car” we wanted, we took whatever was given. He asked the question: who would you be if the world never gave you a label? Prince Ea believes that without labels we would be one, one race, together. Labels are artificial filters of who we are. By labeling ourselves we minimize our own selves from finding ourselves, our true selves. This video shows that when someone is not labeled we will become more caring, loving and understanding to our true selves and to others.
Voici l’enregistrement de Natalia D et Aubrey S. J’ai choisi de présenter un enfant, puis Aubrey a présenté un conseil. Pour le deuxième partie, j’ai choisi de présenter les conseils de Victoria et Aubrey a choisi de présenter les professeurs.
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