Thursday, November 29, 2012
Story Time Ends in College
The central tension in Li-Young Lee's poem is that the father is trying to make his son happy with a story but can not come up with one and is afraid of disappointing his son. The father has told the same stories over and over and began to bore his kid which becomes a metaphor for his kid growing up and needing to move away. Eventually his son gets bored and leaves with keys showing that the poem is a metaphor for his son needing to move on and go to college/ leave the house. The father is having a hard time with this and does not want his son to leave. This is shown in the sentence "You
laugh at the spider.Let me
tell it! But the
boy is packing his shirts, he is
looking for his keys.". This shows that his son is grown up and moving away. That is why the conflict is about his son growing up and needs to move away and how it is a metaphor for the father running out of stories.
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This has a very good thesis, but it includes a bit of your supporting details toward the end when you describe how the child begins to get bored of his father's stories
ReplyDeleteGood thesis, exept that I can only find of literary device, metaphor, when the prompt asks for two.
ReplyDeleteYou have a thesis statement but some parts of it i have trouble understanding what your point is.
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