Where the sidewalk ends

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends. 

By Shel Silverstein

 

The poem "Where the sidewalk ends" has metaphoric traits like "And there the sun burns crimson bright". this poem makes me feel why would they end the side walk. 

 

 

mother to son

Mother to Son by Langston Hughes shows that life isn't easy and you cant expect everything to be handed to you like what the mother said  Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. it also shows that every one lives a posh life in the suburbs or a nice city.  It's had tacks in it And, splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. That sentence means that her life has hit dead ends and bumps (Or crashes) but she kept going and that her son should to.

Rules of the road

What if you had to run away from the things you knew, the family you knew, and the way you lived. Jenna tried to run away from her father and Mrs. Gladstone has to give up the ways she raised he son. “Rules of the Road” by Joan Bauer is about overcoming challenges in your life 

Jenna Boller is a teenage girl who can sell anything at Gladstone shoes and shes happy to. But Jenna’s happy to go to work to get away from everything but mostly her father and his problems. One day Jenna’s boss Madeline asks her to drive her to Texas Jenna only wants to go to get away from her father. After the trip Jenna got the courage to stand up to her father’s drinking problem because of Harry’s death. She said to him “I can’t be with you unless you change because seeing you so out of control, seeing you wasting your life is too hard for me. I can’t pretend like you don’t have a problem you need help, Dad! You’re an alcoholic. There’s help everywhere for what you’ve got. Bu you’ve got to want to get it”. Jenna’s dad denied everything she said and said that he could handle it but she didn’t believe that.

Madeline Gladstone is a manager of an above average shoe company who has to deal with her age, company, and her son Elden. After Mrs. Gladstone retires her son Elden is planning to take over Gladstone shoes and sell it off to a way more successful business because of all the money they make off of their cheaply made shoes. Mrs. Gladstone hears about this from all of the store owners and some like it but she WON’T tolerate it. Gladstone shoes dose get taken over but Mrs. Gladstone gets hired as the quality control representative of shoe warehouse.

There are many challenges in your life. Like running away from your past or giving up your ways but you can overcome it.