Tone Piece Sarcasm/ Overcoming Something

When growing up there are certain milestones in my life and almost every child goes through learning to ride that wonderful bike. You think that everything is on top of the world when you get to take those deadly training wheels off. Nobody realized what great influence that learning to ride a bike is, not just in a positive way. Crashing and burning after so many attempts is just awesome and love feeling the pain of the scabs and road rash marks are just the proof of the awesomeness to learning to how to ride a bike. The learning of getting the impatient when things don't go your way after so many attempts. Then it happens all at once, no crashing and burning but finally reaching the pinancle of rideing a bike all on your own, without those dreaded training wheels off. You feel a sense of accomplishment when coming over that first big obstacle and accomplishing something really big for the first time. Riding a bike can become great fun when you accomplish it on your own and don't give up.

The Gift by Li-Young Lee

While reading this poem all I could think about was my relationship with my mother and how it can be the best at times, but also not the best of times. This poem talks about a father digging a splinter out of the kids foot. I have many experiences with this, but not with my father but with my mother. She is not the most sensitive person in the world and also not the most gentle. Whenever I got a splinter it was usually from my wood play set outside that my mom built herself with my dad. So back to the splinter caught in my foot from the play set she would set me down by the backyard door and get the dreaded tweezers. She would not gently dig for the splinter, no she would dig those tweezers in until she got the splinter, she did not care if I bled. Though she was not sensitive to my feeling she always managed to get the splinter out. This poem is also about growing and how the dad gets into a flashback when taking a splinter out of his own daughter, a flashback to his own father taking out his splinter. Shows that parents will always be there even for the little things like taking a splinter out. My mom may not have been the nicest person about taking it out, but without her who would of taken out my splinter. My mom was there and will always be there to take the splinters out.