Most recent public comments by Avery Post https://nowcomment.com/users/94722 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380275 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380275 There is not enough representation out there for POC, they have a hard time finding media about their cultures and families. The fact that the story wont be about them goes to show how left out they are from many of the other things literature has to offer. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:00:00 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380254 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380254 Perhaps, since a womb never truly recovers after childbirth, it signifies the fact that her child will always be with her. That the mother had changed and with her child, she will start a new part of her life. A new way of viewing the world with her very own motherly knowledge, he very own archive in her womb. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:59 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380241 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380241 The way that the author writes this stanza is jarring to say the least. At first I didn't completely understand it. It seems to be about the author's favorite book being something from here childhood. Perhaps her childhood is the favorite book? Maybe the daughter found the way that her parent looks back on their childhood, maybe the daughter reminds the parent of this childhood? Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:59 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380157 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380157 Kids shouldn't have to stop having fun. Learning should be fun, not driven by grades and numbers and the threat of more. Learning should never, ever be a threat. Staying longer to learn should never be a threat. But student arrive and they learn and they hate it. They would rather daydream, but in school they are forced to drop their way of escaping the dull, dreary day's work. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:58 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380144 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380144 Being a slave to the school system is what people go through constantly. For years upon years people like Tiffany, who work hard and try their best, are forced to go through torment even longer simply because she didn't pass one little class. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:57 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380116 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380116 The school system isn't supportive of some people. People who could be geniuses are forced to be cut short of the education they need. Being held back because of something that they might've been able to pass if they had simply been taught better? That's a horrible thing to do to a student. It makes it feel impossible to finish. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:57 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380102 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380102 I noticed this too, and its almost as though that's what it actually feels like. Its just the same thing. Crawling in and out like hibernation, just as you said. I quite like the way you brought this up. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:56 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380091 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380091 I hadn't noticed the layout until you pointed it out! Its an interesting choice, and one that I find is very unique. It makes you think about the way tests are put out and the way that it might be confusing on layout alone. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:56 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380077 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380077 I find the imagery pleasing when I imagine bubbles bursting into glitter. Its not often I hear it described that way. I quite enjoy the choice of wording here. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:56 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380063 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380063 The statement of these students being alive doesn't completely resonate until you realize that they're not just alive, but they are their own person. They are a real, living, breathing mind. They play and laugh and live their own real lives. And Mr. Harris will watch them grow, and live, and be human right in front of his eyes. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:56 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380042 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380042 Mr. Harris makes the choice to write his poetry in lower case letters. While I often see this a lot in poetry, what exactly does it mean for the author? Is it a way to portray his sorrow? His quiet fury with the world? Its a choice that he makes to share his emotions outside of just words on a page. It brings a different sense of life to his poems. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:00:00 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380000 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2380000 Some people aren't always fortunate enough to be able to "do anything" even with hard work and determination. Some people are, unfortunately, born without the chance or situations where they can put their minds to it. Having the chance to succeed isn't just hard work, its also the opportunities offered. If opportunities aren't given, there is no way to move forward. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:55 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2379980 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2379980 I feel as though it wasn't just "wishful thinking" that the author was suggesting here. Perhaps he is suggesting how some people are born behind in this world. How sometimes people cannot do anything they want if they put their minds to it, because life isn't fair. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:55 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2379968 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2379968 Maybe this shares a different option, how perhaps the people around him were pushing him forward. They wanted him to be better and reach above the rooftops. The hands that left as soon as he told them he couldn't reach. Perhaps they still try to help. Maybe there are people still trying to support him, but he feels as though he wont be able to grow further. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:54 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2379937 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2379937 There is also the fact that swings have chains, like even though he could soar like a bird, he is chained down to a place he felt he couldn't leave. Perhaps, even, the hands he mentioned are the people trying to push him further, only for him to be a moth. To want to see the light and touch it, but never being able to get closer. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:54 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2379904 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2379904 Even outside of the pandemic, the town of Sellersburg could almost be considered similar to the author's town. A great many of people feel stuck here, that there is hardly a way out anymore. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:54 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/262700?scroll_to=2376448 https://nowcomment.com/documents/262700?scroll_to=2376448 He also used the Honors vs. Regulars statement a lot. This could be seen as repetition, it certainly emphasizes his point well. Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:00:24 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/262700?scroll_to=2376445 https://nowcomment.com/documents/262700?scroll_to=2376445 Its such a depressing fact that people who want to teach and bring up the next generations to come are the ones being payed so little. They deserve more respect, they deserve more money and they shouldn't have to buy things just to support their students. They take up so much of their time just to teach and give students the ability to learn new things. Education is failing, there is not enough money for schools, there is not enough passionate people to lead the next generation. There might be passionate teachers out there, but the lack of good pay is discouraging them from going into education. Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:58:37 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260957?scroll_to=2359652 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260957?scroll_to=2359652 Treating a slave as a human is considered dangerous? Why is it dangerous? Being considered an outcast from society because "maybe slaves shouldn't be treated like livestock?" What made her so scared to treat Fredrick so differently? Would more harm than being an outcast come to her? Would she be arrested or beaten? Would her husband be furious, is that who she is so scared of? Who she is always trying to do better for? Why did she change so suddenly, and how come she is so cruel to someone she once treated so kindly? Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:02:10 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260957?scroll_to=2359630 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260957?scroll_to=2359630 When people think of the times of slavery, many don't think about the children who weren't tainted by their parent's ideals. The ones who would gladly play with whoever they could, regardless of skin color. They were the kids who felt bad for the conditions in which many slaves lived. The ones who would hope for these playmates would be free one day. They thought every child as equal. And when they grow up, how is it that their ideals shift so suddenly sometimes? Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:02:10 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260957?scroll_to=2359618 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260957?scroll_to=2359618 Would being a 'beast" truly be better than not knowing anything at all? And did Fredrick Douglas, who had learned to read, truly believe that only he was the man among beasts? The one who could have reasonable thought, and no other slave could think as though he does? Perhaps they couldn't describe their thoughts quite as well, but they still had the ability to think just as he does. Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:02:09 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260283?scroll_to=2354967 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260283?scroll_to=2354967 How convenient that Mrs. Price remembers that the sweater was, in fact, Rachels, right after a student brings it up. Sometimes people just want to put things in their rightful spots, and will create any reason to place it there. Mrs. Price is obviously wrong about who's sweater it is, but she convinced herself already and cannot be persuaded otherwise. Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:52:09 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260283?scroll_to=2354962 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260283?scroll_to=2354962 Do we really have to justify our sadness when we're older? Do we have to tell ourselves we are feeling three, that only three year-olds are allowed to cry like this? That we can't seek help from our moms unless we feel five? What if I don't feel three whenever I cry? What if I feel the age that I am, would that just mean I am crying like normal? While I recognize that this paragraph is not trying to say these things as a negative, I'd rather approach a different view. Why does society think that it's okay to force tears back and to never rely on others? There shouldn't be that unspoken rule, one that if you break it, you must scramble to find an excuse as to why it was broken. Things may make us feel child-like, but we should always be accepted to cry at any age, or to feel vulnerable well into adulthood. Society's views on intimacy and vulnerability hinder people's ability to feel and emote. Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:45:09 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260279?scroll_to=2354497 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260279?scroll_to=2354497 The way that Mrs. Luella interacts with Roger is stern, and serious, but she is kind with him despite the force she uses. She seems like a woman to treat people she just met like family, as she did with Roger. Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:01:29 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260279?scroll_to=2354473 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260279?scroll_to=2354473 Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones doesn't punish Roger like society's "normal" would. She related to him, and didn't think of herself as above him in any way, most likely because she had done the same things and more when she was his age. She didn't attack him over this mistake, instead teaching him why it was wrong with kindness. Some people don't learn from aggression or violence, especially those who are used to violent reactions. Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:01:29 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/258111?scroll_to=2333006 https://nowcomment.com/documents/258111?scroll_to=2333006 This stanza of the poem is referencing the racial bias of police officers, from the perspective of a person of color. Despite when this was made, it makes some points that feel similar to today's time. With the Black Lives Matter movement surging up last year, the deaths of many colored people due to police brutality were brought to light. The last line of the stanza references "killin the song of our sleep." While this was made before Breonna Taylor was killed, this reminds me of it as it was told that she was killed in her home, in the place where she rests and sleeps. It may not be the best correlation, but its one that this poem made me think about. Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:40:00 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/257626?scroll_to=2326790 https://nowcomment.com/documents/257626?scroll_to=2326790 Maybe the moon shapes are referencing how many nights they have to spend without this person. The flower bed could be something like a grave, placing flowers upon a grave or memorial in front of their house. Perhaps he grandmother is trying to distract herself from the looming future of spending the rest of her lifetime without that special someone who they lost. Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:34:44 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/257626?scroll_to=2326743 https://nowcomment.com/documents/257626?scroll_to=2326743 Before this line there is a line about the grandmother's equinoctial tears. The almanac predicts weather, and it is especially important for farmers. Equinoctial tears may be something leading up to this line, since it mentions planting tears. It could also be like saying "time to move on" as this poem is referencing someone who is no longer there. Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:26:25 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247092?scroll_to=2299619 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247092?scroll_to=2299619 Being able to see someone visibly light up and get excited when you enter the room is a feeling like no other. Its the feeling of being wanted and remembered. I learned about physical conversation cues during a class once, and the one that is mentioned in this paragraph is the best one, in my opinion. It is a warm reaction, and I could never get sick of it. Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:22:38 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247092?scroll_to=2299516 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247092?scroll_to=2299516 People are so worried about how people thing of them, not just wealth, but other aspects of their lives. Money plays a large part in life, and for some people they think it means a lot in death as well. They want their reputation to exceed death, and it wont. That's just how it is, and even if this chapter title is just trying to explain in extremes, it shows off the way people think. No one will care about not owning a network after you die, its just how it is. Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:19:50 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247092?scroll_to=2299478 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247092?scroll_to=2299478 Doing things that is not very expected of a 16-year-old is something I do a lot. Just yesterday I took my time to build a snowman, with no prompting from anyone other than myself. Just like Mr. Hankins mentioning throwing a snowball, I acted on my younger side and played in the snow. Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:41:50 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/246954?scroll_to=2269341 https://nowcomment.com/documents/246954?scroll_to=2269341 Earlier Morrie was talking about self-pity, about waking up in the morning and trying to feel his body moving. He mentioned crying and mourning about his loss. Then, in this paragraph, he speaks about how lucky he is. For the simple fact that he gets to say goodbye many times. How a lot of people don't get to, in a way. He went from mourning his situation, to understanding that this the worst thing that could happen to him. In some ways I think this could be negative, but Morrie lets himself mourn, and he lets himself be optimistic. He is someone who can find the good in a horrible situation. Pitiful or lucky, Morrie is an inspiring individual, and has a lot of good advice to give. Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:58:18 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2186659 https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2186659 I'd like to point out that I agree with what you said in your post, but I don't think it was all 100% happy. Maybe at the very end, they were, but Jack appeared to be almost tearful ad he hugged his wife. He turned away from the train and shook in Rina's arms. It seemed to be a moment that was very difficult for him. Jack was yet again being held up by his wife, but this moment also shows the growth between the two. They were somewhat distant in the beginning, and they even went through couples therapy together. I think it was a lot harder for Jack than what was initially thought. He will still be their friends, and visit from time to time, but this is him moving onto a new part of life without them. Fri, 06 Nov 2020 11:55:21 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2186603 https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2186603 I noticed how Jack treats Barry more like a son than his own dad did. This is shown very well in the golfing scene, specially when Barry shows how calm he is around Jack. Its a stark contrast to the trembling from before, with Barry's biological father. This scene was very moving, and it was one of my favorites, but there's more to say about after this. When Jack took Barry back to the ward, he treats him gently. Barry crawls into his bed, and Jack goes as far as to take off his shoes, tuck him in and give him a paternal kiss on Barry's temple. I think this just goes to show that bonds can be special despite blood relations, and that Jack is truly a loving figure in Barry's life. This also might explain the outburst at the party, Barry could have been showing his fear of losing another father figure. Fri, 06 Nov 2020 23:30:02 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/238472?scroll_to=2175633 https://nowcomment.com/documents/238472?scroll_to=2175633 I believe that the overarching theme of this poem could be to let others help you. It is such a short poem, which might normally make it difficult to find the theme. Luckily, despite the title not showing anything, the text really helps with the overall focus. Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:43:29 -0400