“The Ballad of Rudolph Reed” by Gwendolyn Brooks: Comprehension Questions “The Ballad of Rudolph Reed” follows the journey of a black man and his family as they move into an all white neighborhood; being the first and only colored family in the community. Rudolph Reed desired improvement of his family’s environment‚ and decided it was best to move into a more sustainable future in their own home. Despite his only intention being to live a more fruitful life‚ the white neighbors attempt in creating
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The Ballad Of The Sade Cafe The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers‚ is a story about a lonely and isolated town that is once the location of a thriving cafe Nothing was happening in the town until the dreary town became a witness to the love triangle among the three main characters of the story. Marvin Macy the ‘handsome’ man who married Miss Amelia Evans who was a wealthy and lonely woman. The two lived together only for ten days before they separated because she refuses to consummate
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she could go march in a freedom march instead of going outside to play. Her mother refuses to let her march because she wants to keep the little girl safe from the violence‚ but when the daughter is sent to church‚ an explosion kills the child. “ ‘Ballad of Birmingham’ provides rich lessons in irony‚ the power of poetry‚ and the history of our country” (Jolley 38). The irony is displayed from the fact that the mother wants to keep her child safe by sending her to church and thus leads to her death
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“The Ballad of Narcomexico‚” discusses the different types of narcocorridos that we usually heard in the radio. We tend to think that corridos are all about narcos‚ but in reality is so much more than that. Narcocorridos tend to talk about people’s lives like the narcos for instance. In the text it discusses about a corrido called‚ “El Ejecutor‚” which is based in the life of Adolfo Valenzuela also known as El Komander. The song talks about where he grew up and how he became what he is known. Also
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Grigori Chukhrai’s Ballad of a Soldier portrayed a perspective on healthy sexuality that was considered liberating for the time period. After Alyosha cleverly disguises Shura in his military coat and hat‚ they both make it onto the train. As the train is moving forward‚ Alyosha and Shura laugh with one another until smoke fills the screen and initiates a dissolve into an intimate space that belongs to them. At first‚ there is a melancholic tone to their intimacy perhaps acknowledging the fact that
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Charlotte Dymond was reported missing on 14 April 1844. Her body was found on Bodmin Moor 9 days later. On 2 August 1844 Matthew Weeks was found guilty of her murder. He was hanged on 12 August 1844. The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond by Charles Causley It was a Sunday evening And in the April rain That Charlotte went from our house‚ And never came home again. And is that why your eye won’t dry And blinds your bleaching face? “Take me home!” cried Charlotte‚ “I lie here in the pit!
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1. Lennie held his closed hand away from George’s direction. “It’s on’y a mouse‚ George.”“A mouse? A live mouse?”“Uh-uh. Jus’ a dead mouse‚ George. I didn’ kill it. Honest! I found it. I found it dead.” (pg. 5)2. George said “Ya know‚ Lennie‚ I’m scared I’m gonna tangle with that bastard myself. I hate his guts. Jesus Christ! Come on. They won’t be a damn thing to eat.” (pg. 37)3. “Gotta bad gut ache‚” said Candy. “Them God damn turnips give it to me. I knowed they was going to before I ever eat
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Analysis of “Ballad of Birmingham” In the “Ballad of Birmingham” Dudley Randall conjures one of the most vivid and vicious chapters from the civil rights movement: the bombing of a church in 1963 that wounded twenty-one and cost four girls their lives. This poem is a dialogue between mother and daughter during which ironically the mother forbids the daughter to march for freedom‚ fearing violence will erupt. Instead she gives her daughter permission to sing in the choir at their church. Dudley
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The Ballad of Father Gilligan - W.B. Yeats The poem takes the form of a ballad which was traditionally sung with short and regular stanzas telling a short but profoundly meaningful story. Yeats’s poems are not usually overtly religious‚ but this poem is one. Though Yeats was a protestant who later turned to theosophy and mysticism‚ this poem is Catholic in tone. Also contrary to his practice‚ Yeats uses an Irish word in the poem – ‘mavrone’ which in Irish is ‘mobhron’‚ a cry of grief
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The poem of “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall is about a little African American girl who wants to join the march for the civil rights movement‚ but her mother thinks it is too dangerous. Instead‚ the mother advises her daughter to go to church; however‚ the white terrorists kill her daughter by bombing the church. The mother is desperately searching for her daughter and she finds only her daughter’s shoes at the end instead of her body. The form‚ the meaning‚ and settling of the poem help
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