Show A Kids Perspective On Everyday Things example essay topic

The early phases of growing up can have its own unique problems. There are many different things that can go wrong while growing up. Your whole body is changing and it can take some getting used to. There were many stories that I read in the literature book that illustrated this to me.

I will compare these stories to each other to see how they were similar and also to see the different problems people experience while growing up. In the story 'the family of little feet', three little girls go out to explore the world and discover many wonderful thing and also many evil things (Cisneros, 77). The poem 'in just' is about what kids see when they look at the world (Cummings, 158). These stories are similar in that they both show a kids perspective on everyday things. In the Cummings story the kids see the ballon man as a magical creature. It also shows how kids love spring.

After being locked up inside all winter they can finally go outside and run around and get dirty and just have fun. In Cisneros story about the magical shoes that there mother had given to them it shows how kids can really grow up too fast. The kids just want to be kids but everyone else is seeing them as grown ups. The girls do not really understand what is going on. And when they get home they just want to get rid of the shoes so they can just be kids again. These two stories are about just being young and doing stuff that kids do.

Playing in the mud and dancing about. They are about doing things you can only do as a child. If an adult starting skipping along through puddles people would think he was crazy but if an adult saw a kid doing it they would not have a second thought about it. In the story of the 'undertaker' a young man is killed by a gang (Smith, 135). As the mother goes to visit the undertaker she tries to explain to him how wonderful her son was and how he was not involved in a gang. She wants the undertaker to make her son look like the sweet little boy that she remembers.

Unfortunately the undertaker has heard this story far too many times. He understands the grief that the mother is going through but he has a job to do and he needs to pay his bills. The mother has too understand that her baby is gone and there's nothing he can do for her. Her son thought he was invincible and now he paid the price for it. The poem 'we real cool' is similar to the 'undertaker' except it takes the perspective of the kids (Brooks, 161). The poem is about kids that dropped out of school to hang out, drink, and basically do whatever they feel like doing.

They play pool, drink, dance, and brag about all the bad stuff they have done. And because of all the bad stuff they do they will probably die young just like the boy in the 'undertaker'. These two stories show how easy it is to do the wrong thing. Sometimes kids just want to have fun and before they realize what they have done there too far in to get back out. The poem 'Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio' is about children of laborers that have only one way out of the town that they live in, football (Wright, 163). The fathers in this town mostly work in the mines.

They perform back breaking hard labor all day long just to scrape up enough money to put food on their families tables. The fathers all watch their sons play football on saturdays. This is the one thing they are proudest of. And the sons know football is the only thing that can carry them away from the mines and hard work.

Football is the one thing that can get them into college and out of there town. The woman of the town have there love robbed from them by football. All the men's hopes and dreams lived and died on that football field and always will.