" My Papas Waltz" and "Those Winter Sundays"

      Parents show up for their children and many different ways. In "Those winter Sundays" by Robert

 Hayden the father cares about his family. He makes many sacrifices for them. In "My Papa's waltz"

 by Theodore Roethke, the speaker makes it sound like the father is drunk. Both poems are about the

sons impression of his father and how the father acts towards them.

                  The father in "Those winter Sundays" is a selfless person. For example, in the text, it says,

"Then with cracked hands that ached /from labor in the weekday weather made/banked fires blaze."

 This shows that the father has a very tough job and even on Sundays, which is a day generally set

 aside for rest, is still working for his family. In "My Papa's waltz," the father doesn't seem as nice as

a father in "Those winter Sundays", because he doesn't treat his son well. For example, it explains,

"The whiskey on your breathe/could make a small boy dizzy." This doesn't mean the father drinks all

 the time, but if the whiskey could make someone dizzy then he's drunk. This makes him a bad parent

 because in the poem, he's playing with his son, and seems like they're playing roughly. The father is

supposed to be mature and the one in charge. It also says "But I hung on my death/such waltzing was

 not easy." This shows that the sun loves his father no matter what he does, bad or good, because the

 speaker explains that it was hard to hang on to his father. Or love him.
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             In my "Papa's waltz" the son cares about his father very much. In "Those winter Sundays" the

 son doesn't appreciate everything his father does for him. For example in it says, "Speaking

 indifferently to him/who had driven out the cold/and polished my good shoes as well. This shows

 that the son was not grateful for all his father did for him. In"My Papa's waltz" it states "You beat

 time on my head/with a palm caked hard by dirt/then waltzed me off to bed/still clinging to your

 shirt." The sons are obviously very different from each other, because the son in "My Papas Waltz"

love his father, but his father doesn't show his feelings for his son. In "Those Winter Sundays" the

father does everything for his son, but doesn't get a lot in return.

       In conclusion, these two poems are different in many different ways. They show the same

characters, with different personalities. This poem relates to the world because the fathers and sons

obviously care about each other but it depends on who cares for them.

                                                          Night

                                                                   By Elie Wiesel

 

 

              Life throws many challenges at us, but you should never give up. In the book Night

By Elie Wiesel the characters face many challenges. They are put in camp after camp and they are tortured daily. The theme work is liberty, because the Jewish people are forced to do hard labor at the camps. Work is a big part of the book. The Nazis thought that being Jewish was wrong and they didn’t treat them right.

The theme is work is liberty because the Jewish people are forced to do work at the camps, for example in the book it states “the kapo explained to us at great length the vast importance of our work, warning us that anyone found slacking would have him to reckon with.” This shows how much power the Nazis had.  It also shows that the Nazis think they can use the Jewish people as their puppets.

Another reason why the theme is work I liberty is because in the book  it states” we were

tormented with hunger, we had eaten nothing for six days, except a bit of grass or some potato

peelings found near the kitchens.” How do the Nazi expect the Jewish people to work when they

don’t get enough sleep or food.

The theme is work is liberty because in the end I know that they are liberated. For example, in the book it

states "many years later in Paris I was reading my paper in the metro". This was in the future when he got out

of the camps. So work is liberty is definitely the theme. Another example is "this was Franek's chance to

torment my father and to thrash him savagely every day." After this,  Elizer showed his father how to not get

beaten by getting up early to practice. This shows that they believe if they work hard, they will be freed.

In conclusion The theme of the book night by Elie Wiesel is the work is liberty because of everything the Jews

went through, and how they faced it. They worked all day every day and never gave up.