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=Life for My Child Is Simple, and Is Good=

Life for my child is simple, and is good. He knows his wish. Yes, but that is not all. Because I know mine too. And we both want joy of undeep and unabiding things, Like kicking over a chair or throwing blocks out of a window Or tipping over an icebox pan Or snatching down curtains or fingering an electric outlet Or a journey or a friend or an illegal kiss. No. There is more to it than that. It is that he has never been afraid. Rather, he reaches out and lo the chair falls with a beautiful crash And the blocks fall, down on the people's heads, And the water comes slooshing sloopily out across the floor. And so forth. Not that success, for him, is sure, infallible. But never has he been afraid to reach. His lesions are legion. But reaching is his rule.

Structure Context Literary Devices Imagery Figurative language Tone/Theme
 * Fixed Form, common punctuation with periods, commas, capitalizations is at beginning of sentnces. Rhyme scheme is none. pattern varys.
 * Author is Gwendolyn Brooks who is an african american female in the 1960's. The book itself focuses on the aspect of roots or simplicity in the childs life since that is what makes the child up overall in life to make his deciions. Also, obstacles with the child not going through same hardships as the mother did.
 * repetition/anaphora- Or-lines 6-8, And-lines11-14
 * touch-fingering an eletric outlet
 * sight-water comes slooshing sloppily out across the floor
 * Metaphors- an illegal kiss, his lesions are legion
 * Tone- relaxed with the simplicity of child
 * Theme- Child has lack of racial obstacles that she faced since child himself is just simple

Summary- The Child is simple since he is just a child in which life is easy for him. The author or fictious mother must have been from or is in an age of racial ostacles in which she basically happy at the fact that the chil has a smple understanding of life in which there are many more options and opportunities for him. The african american aspect falls under Obstacles in which the child has less than many others. In this poem the mother just realizes that her child lives life with out fear or worry. They are focused on one thing and they are happy with that. They have so much time to do great things, so they are just worried about being a kid. Also, rots in which it was a simple life in africa in which it is a simple life for the child.

Author Study . Published first poem in magazine at 13 years old. After graduatintg junior college she continued to write in which put her first poetry collection called "Street in Bronzeville" in 1945. Her second book ,called "Auntie Allen", won her the first pultizer prize for an african american. After attending the Second Black Writers' Conference at fisk university, she really began to question the turbulent times with such matters like Malcolm X, street gang warfare, and race riots. Received more than 50 honorary doctorates, honorary appointments, and even read literature in the white house in 1980.