Life+for+My+Child+is+Simple+(Block+12)

"life for my child is simple" NOTES SIGN OF UNKNOWN WORDS: -unabiding -infallible -legion.

PARAPHASE: lines 1-5:the longing of joy of continually changing things is wanted. the child and the speaker both knows what they want and are striving for in life. lines 6-10:not afraid of experiencing all the bad things that may happen in order to find out the real outcome in many different situations. lines 11-15:success is sure due to foolproof of reaching in a lifetime. lines 16-18:reaching is what gets you to success.

Summarize: In the poem Life For My Child Is Simple, the narrator wants her child to have a normal life. She wants him to be allowed to make mistakes, as seen by the falling chair and the crashing blocks and the spilled water. These all represent the child's freedom to find out what makes him happy. And when the narrator says "his legions are many, but reaching is his rule", she's saying that even though he might get hurt along the way, she always wants him to have the freedom to keep on trying.

Analysis: A deeper meaning of the chair falling is her child trying something and failing at it. As are the spilled water and the crashing blocks. The narrator isn't saying that she wants her child to fail, she's saying that she wants him to BE ABLE to fail and BE ALLOWED to get right back up and try again. She lived during an era where usually, colored people couldn't even try at most things, giving them no room for failure. All she wants for her son is for him to be allowed the oppurtunity to be free of persecution when he fails.

IN her childs life time she sees that they can do something wrong and not really worry about the consequences. Also they live life without fear. They are not scared of the things going on around them, they concentrate on one thing and only that one thing. They are happy in everything they do. She wishes that her life was like that because when she was young they did not have those same freedoms, they were always afraid of the worries that surrounded them.