Allondra Delagarza February 12‚ 2015 P: 5th “A Story” By Li-Young Lee “A Story” by Young Lee writes about a young boy who wants his father to tell him a story but he doesn’t want to hear the same story over and over again. He wants to her a new story. The poem is written about a five year old boy and talking to his “baba.” Ba is the Chinese word for “dad” and “baba” translates to daddy. The poem can be told through the boy’s perspective or the father’s perspective
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Time has the tendency to impact everyone and everything. In the poem “A Story” Li-Young Lee reveals the intimate yet short lived relationship of the father and the son through the use of dialogue‚ conflict and point of view to hint at the inevitably of children branching out and possibly surpassing their parents. Emphasized through the differing perspectives of the father and son Lee highlights the innocence of young children and parents and their changing relationship over time. The speaker depicting
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his father. However‚ depending on what has happened between the child and the other person. In the poem “A Story” by poet Li-Young-Lee‚ he uses the third person point of view and structure of the poem to define the complex relationship of a son and his father. Children are known for becoming entertained very quickly as well as getting bored easily. “Sad is the man who is asked for a story/and can’t come up with one.”(1-2) This perspective is not the man’s but an outsider’s who has experienced this
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the parent watches his grip on his child slowly slip. In “A Story”‚ Li-Young Lee uses poetic diction‚ structure‚ and point of view to convey the complex relationship between a father and his son. Frustrated and hopeless a father “rubs his chin‚ scratches his ear‚” in search for the perfect story to appease the demands of his son. Lee uses poetic diction to express the father’s frustration with his inability to “come up with [a story]” and the sons’s eager affection towards this unsuccessful storyteller
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important growth. In the poem “A Story” by Li-Young Lee‚ the author uses a third person point of view‚ specific dialogue‚ and a creative structure in order to illustrate the growth in the relationship between the father and son and the complexities that are anticipated to arise as things change. Li-Young Lee tells the story from a third person limited point of view as the author focuses on the father and tells us his thoughts and feelings throughout the poem. The story is told from the father’s perspective
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A Story Sad is the man who is asked for a story and can’t come up with one. His five-year-old son waits in his lap. Not the same story‚ Baba. A new one. The man rubs his chin‚ scratches his ear. In a room full of books in a world of stories‚ he can recall not one‚ and soon‚ he thinks‚ the boy will give up on his father. Already the man lives far ahead‚ he sees the day this boy will go. Don’t go! Hear the alligator story! The angel story once more! You love the spider story
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Li-Young Lee’s poem “A Story” shows the complicated relationship between the father and the son by utilizing the literary devices of point of view and structure. Italicized lines distinguish the diction of who is talking to draw on point of view to indicate the complex relationship. Through changing perspective‚ Lee employs emotional interests to emphasize the conflicting perspectives that exist between father and son. Lee also adds depth to the shared “love” between the two characters to illuminate
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A Story by Li-Young Lee presents an affectionate relationship between a father and his son‚ both of them searching for the right words to say to one another. The father worries that he has exhausted his supply of interesting stories and frantically pines for something‚ anything that will keep his son interested. He realizes that his son will eventually grow up and lose the cheerful admiration with which he looks at his father now. Through the use of literary techniques‚ Lee builds up the internal
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In the poem “A Story” by Li-Young Lee‚ the poem reveals the complex nature between father and son through the son’s yearning for a story. Lee uses several literary devices and emotional demands to highlight the different perspectives between father and son over time. With point of view and structure being used‚ Lee creates the emotion that a father and son share‚ the innocence it brings‚ and how this bond between father and son changes with time. In several parts of the poem‚ Lee uses point of
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“A Story” Analysis “A Story” by Li-Young Lee is a melancholy poem expressing a relationship between father and son‚ focusing primarily on the father’s thoughts. Their relationship gets complicated when the dad can not come up with a story for his pleading son because he is too wrapped up in worrying about a possible future in which he fails to come up with a tale causing the son to leave‚ essentially ruining their relationship before it even has a chance to develop. Lee accomplishes delivery of
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