Touching Spirit Bear Quote Revision

Author's Note: This is a revision of a previously written quote evaluation.
  

“The dances, carving the totem, carrying the ancestor rock, touching the Spirit Bear, it was all the same thing—it was finding out who I really was.”

Cole to Peter, p. 283

This quote, near the end of the novel, summarizes in a sentence the point of the book's title as well as the whole book. These particular events, while their content and character were interesting and important, were merely means to get to the end of personal growth, healing, and forgiveness. In this way, the author makes the lesson of the book go beyond a particular boy in Alaska who encounters a bear into a broader story of the man's search for self and meaning.

The Big Yellow Taxi & Field Below Comparison

Author's Note: These are comparisons of the poems and their songs, specifically The Big Yellow Taxi and Field Below. 
 

Big Yellow Taxi

The song is way different than the poem. The lyrics/words may have been the same but the tone and mood re not even close. In the poem the tone was kind of sad or depressed and the mood was sympathetic. For the song the tone was upbeat and the mood was happy.

Field below

For Field Below, they were pretty much the same. The background music matched the tone of the poem. Both the poem's and the song's tone were lonely and depressed and the moods were sympathetic. Also, the purpose was the same, too.

Blood Ninja Parody

Author's Note: This is a parody of This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams. This parody is for the book Blood Ninja by Nick Lake. After the parody, is a paragraph analyzing the parody.

P.S. Taro is the main character of Blood Ninja.

I have dropped

The bow

Given by my father

Into a ditch

In which

A drunken man

Took it

And threw it in a hut

I went back

With Heiko

I found the bow

And broke it in half

Blood Ninja. The poem relates to the book because It depicts the scenes when taro drops his bow and when he goes back for it with Heiko. Taro is the speaker and the audience is Taro (implying that the poem is taking place in his thoughts). The tone in the first two stanzas is apologetic and in the third it is insincere.

"Mother to Son" Analysis

Author's Note: This is analysis of tone, mood, and figurative language in the poem "Mother to Son" By Langston Hughes.

I found the tone to be to persevere. With the metaphor "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair." as well as "It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare." she, the mother, is obviously telling her son that life isn't easy, and that no matter what happens he has to keep on going. I felt that the mood was inspiration, because It inspires the reader to never give up despite all the hardships one will have to deal with.