Abdoul’s Comments (group member since Sep 11, 2009)

Abdoul’s comments from the Ms. J's Class L group.

Your Task: (ONLY WRITE THE TWO BODY PARAGRAPHS!)
Write a critical essay in which you discuss two works of literature you have read from the particular perspective of the statement that is provided for you in the Critical Lens. In your essay, provide a valid interpretation of the statement, agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it, and support your opinion using specific references to appropriate literary elements from the two works.

Abdoul.I
Class:L
Critical Lens:
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see,...” — Theodore Roethke
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1966
"in the dark time, the eye begings to see" which means
When bad things happened to you begin to see things really clearly, you raelise what's important to you. and what you need to do to take it to the next level.i kind of agree but not totaly, because not all the time is when something bad happen's to you that you realise what's important.it could be good things or normal life.
Two books that i had read, that are connected to quote are A long Way gone by Ismael Bah and

In the book long way gone By Ismael Bah it describe Ismael by being in the civil war of serra leone.
Ismael was a teenage at age 15 he fouth in the civil war his family were kill by rebell.Ismael escaped in move to a nother country Mali. when the civil war ended Ismael wrote abook bout his journey in the war.
then he become famous.However he realise that he's missing his parents,and famous was not as much important to hin than his family.

Generally to the southern state of America slavery were practice. Furthermore most slave were capture in Africa buy European. Therefore there were a slave called Frederick Douglass who regain his humanity. However it was not easy for Federick to regain his humanity, nevertheless he was a slave with not right over his master. He stood for his self and fight his master instantly.