Anthony Brandt is of course the author, but to me he is just a boy between the ages eleven and fourteen who has just begun to develop and start puberty. I can sympathize with him because he is facing something that could remarkably affect his whole life. It changes the way a person would look at old age and death.
Right vs. rite is something I had trouble with, but now I fully understand now that I have read this for the third time. Right is something we teach for example this is the right way to do something. So right would sort of be an action. A rite is something that it is granted unto you with the becoming of age.
In the country that we live in we have many rites that are granted to us with the becoming of age. For instance at twenty one you are granted the rite to drink, the rite to drive, the rite to be an adult those would have to be a small number of rites we have here in America.
The thesis for this passage would be “Some things that happen to us can’t be borne, with paradoxical result that we carry them on our backs the rest of our lives.”
Brandt’s mother before
Strong, loving, caring , nurturing, bold, family oriented, not self absorbed, brave for her admiration to want to care for her mother, honest when she knew she could care for her mother, and soft spoken like her name, bunny.
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HI Sam,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing.
I did want to clear up any confusion. I have a feeling that this was posted after our discussion of the essay, which is adequate. However, I cannot locate a response to one of the questions as outlined in the schedule. This post resembles what we reviewed in class. Please be aware of this with your next post.