Song vs. Poem

Authors Note: I am writing this as a response of the poem and the song of Big Yellow Taxi

The poem/ song of big yellow taxi are a sad poem about not taking anything for granted because you don’t really know what you have till it’s gone. The poems tone is pretty sad or disappointment. The song of the big yellow taxi is a generally upbeat song. I think that the authors for the poems are to never take anything for granted because you never know what might happen. The music for the poem and the poem itself are very different. The song is upbeat and the poem is kind of sad and depressing. The mood in the music is defiantly different than in the poem. The difference in the poem and the song can tell us that some people can interrupt it differently than other people.

How free were the Blacks?

The topic of the civil war was slavery. Many people died fighting for what they believed in… Weather slaves should or shouldn’t be slaves. We all know how it ended up though, the north won and slavery ended. But did slavery completely end? I believe that slavery was and wasn’t over at the same time.

The civil war was a war fighting for the freedom of blacks. However even after the north won the war the blacks were still not allowed to do all the things that white people could do. For example even after the war blacks could not run in a governmental position. They could not be a legislator or a judge or anything of that kind. The men however under some circumstances could be in the jury, but not women.

Socially blacks were not treated nearly as equal as white people. Most eateries would not allow blacks to eat there. Very many people even after the war still believed that blacks were not as equal as us. In 1860 just about 14 percent of the U.S. population was black.

Economically blacks also had a decently rough time. They were allowed to have jobs however they usually didn’t get a really great job compared to the jobs that the white people had. Because of the lack of jobs that blacks were able to have, some blacks even thought that they were better off being slaves the way that they were still being treated.

In conclusion the blacks were free after the civil war, however even thought they were free they weren’t able to do everything that whites were able to do. It was a long time later when blacks were completely treated like whites are treated.

I always win

Authors Note: This is a parody based off the novel Heroes Don't Run. The speaker is the main character Adam writing to his mother. This parody was done by Sean Beecher and A.J. Wiesman


I have joined the war in the south pacific. Will you forgive more for what I have done? I have made the right decision and I’m overjoyed that I joined.

It relates to the novel because he wanted to go to the war but his mom did not approve but he still felt good about serving his country. The main character Adam is speaking to his mother who is speaking to the audience. The tone in the beginning is sarcastic. It makes the reader think at first that he is asking for forgiveness and at the end the reader sees the sarcasm and takes it in as humor.

Mother to Son Figurative Language

There are quite a few of examples of figurative language in the poem of Mother to Son by Langston Hughes. One example could be in the second line where the mom says “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. I believe that example of figurative language is that she is saying that her life has not been very amazing like a crystal stair. She says her life has tacks and splinters in it but she keeps on climbing. I believe that she is saying that her life isn’t going to be perfect but through whatever troubles she goes through she is going to keep climbing on. I believe that the tone in this story is frustration and in a way motivating. The reason why I believe that this a motivating is because she is trying to tell her son that life is not always going to be a walk in the park, the will be problems, but you just have to keep moving on.

Describing Adam

Authors Note: This short description is about the main character Adam and what part he plays in the story.

There are many words to convey the seventeen year old main character Adam in the story of Hero’s Don’t Run. If you ask his family they will tell you that he is a tall, strong boy, very kind. But you might also hear that he arrogant. Like most teenagers he believes that he is invincible, that nothing can hurt him.
In his family between his sister and him, he is the oldest. His father had died during the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War 2. To his family he is pretty much the man in his house. Like his dad he wants to join the military to fight in the war. His mom and grandpa strongly advise him to not join the war but he ends up persuading his grandpa to sign him up. Adam signing up to fight in the war is a big event in the story. He is not as afraid of the war as he should be. However throughout the book his opinion does change on the war. Towards the middle of the book he starts to notice that he is not invincible and that fighting in the war was a much bigger decision than he thought it out to be. The war shapes him to be more of a man than he was in the beginning of the story.