You are to write a five paragraph literary essay based on one of the 4 prompts and what you have read and learned in this module. these are your options:
how do the events of "the white umbrella" teach the narrator a lesson about shame and acceptance?
what role does creativity play in "the bat-poet"?
how does the character of squeaky change over the course of "raymond's run"?
discuss the influences of older family members on the protagonists and speakers in the stories and poems of this unit.

you are to write a five-paragraph literary essay based on what you have read and learned in this module. your final submission should meet the following requirements.

One thing that all of these stories have in common, is that they all have a lesson. Do you ever read a story and the theme just feels so real because it is a real life problem? well these all show real life problems or actions. For example, in Raymonds run, Squeaky gives up her running skills, to help her brother Raymond. to m this shows to put others before yourself.

At the beginning of the story, the narrator is ashamed of her mother. By the end of the story, when she fears she has lost her forever, she comes to accept her mother.The narrator is an immigrant girl from China. She is embarrassed by her parents, both of whom work and are different from others. She wants to be like her piano teacher. When her piano teacher gives her a white umbrella, she tells the teacher she wishes she were her mother. On the way home, they get in a car accident and for a moment she is afraid her mother has been killed. She feels ashamed for wishing she had a different mother. She accepts her mother for who she is and immediately tosses the umbrella in the sewer.

creativity's role in the poem is to explain the nature of humans by comparing it with animal behavior. It tries to express alienation and being unique by using the bat's experience in the porch. The poem expresses man's human nature of breaking out of his zone and goes back to who he was in the end.

At the beginning of the story, Squeaky comes across as a strong, no-nonsense kind of girl. She is able to fend for herself and also takes care of her older brother, Raymond, who is mentally challenged. This should be quite a big responsibility for Squeaky considering her age, yet she is able to take this in stride. The character squeaky, from Raymonds Run” changed by becoming more confident. Her view on herself and her brother has changed and instead of reaching for what she thinks is her goal, she finds a greater goal, which is supporting her brother.

A protagonist is the main character in a story. Usually to are the good guy, while the antagonist, is the enemy. All of these stories were meant for a reason. To show you, or teach you something, However some of the stories show you with, examples. For example, in the story “The Bat Poet” the real problems in the world don't involve bats, the bats represent real life issues. So all these lesson teachings poems should do their job and teach you, because its very, very important.

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