David by Bub bridgers
Describe a character who changes in a text you have studied, explain what that character change showed as a reader
The poem ‘David’ by Bub bridges is about a mothers thoughts and feelings about the birth of her son David .The text explores how difficult parent child relationships can be at times, but that ultimately they are about unconditional love. A character that changes is thee narrator of the poem ,David’s mother .She starts off disliking her new baby ,but over time comes to love him unconditionally .This change showed me that love isn’t always at first sight and that love grows as time goes on and it’s not always something that can be predicted.
During the beginning of the first stanza David’s mother seems that she is immediately disappointed by him The that the author used in the first stanza gives you an idea that the mother is very bitter and is very negative about her new born son, she begins by describing him as a “big-headed bullet of a boy swollen and alien” comparing him to an alien, one would assume she saw him as a baby that didn’t belong to her as she also says “you were not mine how could you be?” This rhetorical question shows that she is quite in denial that he is hers and begins comparing him to his sister who his mother describes as “delicate as sea shells” It shows that her mothers attitude towards her son David is a lot different than her view towards her Daughter.
Around the begging of the second stanza you start to notice a change in attitude towards her new born son she says “like a baby rabbit ugly”, you can see she starts to develop slight love and a different attitude towards him this simile shows she is starting to forget her bitter feelings towards him as she describes him as a rabbit which one would think of as cute, fluffy and adorable when she describes new born David as a “baby rabbit ugly’ she seems to be growing passion and love toward him but needs to keep reminding herself that she thinks of him in a unattractive way.
The poem ‘David’ by Bub bridges is about a mothers thoughts and feelings about the birth of her son David .The text explores how difficult parent child relationships can be at times, but that ultimately they are about unconditional love. A character that changes is thee narrator of the poem ,David’s mother .She starts off disliking her new baby ,but over time comes to love him unconditionally .This change showed me that love isn’t always at first sight and that love grows as time goes on and it’s not always something that can be predicted.
During the beginning of the first stanza David’s mother seems that she is immediately disappointed by him The that the author used in the first stanza gives you an idea that the mother is very bitter and is very negative about her new born son, she begins by describing him as a “big-headed bullet of a boy swollen and alien” comparing him to an alien, one would assume she saw him as a baby that didn’t belong to her as she also says “you were not mine how could you be?” This rhetorical question shows that she is quite in denial that he is hers and begins comparing him to his sister who his mother describes as “delicate as sea shells” It shows that her mothers attitude towards her son David is a lot different than her view towards her Daughter.
Around the begging of the second stanza you start to notice a change in attitude towards her new born son she says “like a baby rabbit ugly”, you can see she starts to develop slight love and a different attitude towards him this simile shows she is starting to forget her bitter feelings towards him as she describes him as a rabbit which one would think of as cute, fluffy and adorable when she describes new born David as a “baby rabbit ugly’ she seems to be growing passion and love toward him but needs to keep reminding herself that she thinks of him in a unattractive way.