) Writing About A Good Man is Hard To Find [Categories: Life Choice, Course Reading, Re-Genre]: Please complete the following:
In this found poem I used the theme of family…and whether they are a blessing or curse. You could say that Bailey should have listened to his mother, or you could say the grandmother jinxed the family. Mother Knows Best THE GRANDMOTHER didn’t want to go to Florida “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida… “Yes and what would you do if this fellow, The Misfit, caught you?” the grandmother asked. “I’d smack his face,” John Wesley said. She had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady. Just as she said it, a horrible thought came to her. The car turned over once and landed right-side-up in a gulch off the side of the road. “We’ve had an ACCIDENT! The grandmother was curled up under the dashboard, hoping she was injured so that Bailey’s wrath would not come down on her all at once. Behind the ditch they were sitting in there were more woods, tall and dark and deep they saw a car some distance away on top of a hill The grandmother had the peculiar feeling The grandmother shrieked. “You’re The Misfit!” There was a pistol shot from the woods, followed closely by another. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest. “She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” In my second found poem I used the theme of faith. The grandmother clearly had strong faith and believed if she could get “The Misfit” to pray her life would be spared. Pray, pray, pray “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?” the grandmother said and removed a clean handkerchief from her cuff and began to slap at her eyes with it. “I would hate to have to,” he said. “Listen,” the grandmother almost screamed, “I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have com- mon blood. I know you must come from nice people!” “Do you ever pray?” she asked. “Pray, pray,” the grandmother began, “pray, pray . . .” “That’s when you should have started to pray,” she said “If you would pray,” the old lady said, “Jesus would help you.” “Well then, why don’t you pray?” Alone with The Misfit, the grandmother found that she had lost her voice. There was not a cloud in the sky nor any sun. There was nothing around her but woods. She wanted to tell him that he must pray. She opened and closed her mouth several times before anything came out. Finally, she found herself saying, “Jesus. Jesus,” meaning, Jesus will help you, but the way she was saying it, it sounded as if she might be cursing. “Jesus!” the old lady cried. “You’ve got good blood! I know you wouldn’t shoot a lady! I know you come from nice people! Pray! Jesus, you ought not to shoot a lady. I’ll give you all the money I’ve got!” For my third found poem I used the theme of reminiscing. Throughout the whole story the grandmother wants to go to Tennessee instead of Florida. She talks about all the memories she has of Tennessee on their drive to Florida. Reminiscing She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. "The children have been to Florida before," the old lady said. "You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad. They never have been to east Tennessee." She said she thought it was going to be a good day for driving, She pointed out interesting details of the scenery They passed a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island. "Look at the graveyard!" the grandmother said, pointing it out. "That was the old family burying ground. That belonged to the plantation." They passed a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island. "Look at the graveyard!" the grandmother said, pointing it out. "That was the old family burying ground. That belonged to the plantation." He and the grandmother discussed better times.
4 Comments
10/17/2017 12:37:23 pm
Great job!!! The genre of found poetry makes your work more interesting.You portrayed all three poems with different scenes, accurately and well explicit.
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10/18/2017 10:49:41 am
I always enjoy reading your work and I have to say you did a amazing job on your poems! You provided great detail on each poem and used the genre of found poetry so well, I was able to visualize the scenes perfectly.
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Isatu Njie
10/19/2017 07:16:58 am
Good Job! I like how you put together the first found poem to be in between the son listening to his mom or the grandmother jinxed the family. I always like how you put together different found poetry. Enjoyed it!
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Inayah
10/19/2017 07:25:22 am
I really enjoyed reading your poems. The themes you picked were spot on.
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