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Prompt:
Read the following poem and make connections to Secret
Life of Bees.
Why some people be mad at me sometimes
Lucille Clifton
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.
Response Requirement:
• Explain the
conflict in the poem.
• How does
the poem relate to Lily’s life?
“ They want me to remember” - Lucille Clifton. The conflict in this poem seems to be about remembering the past. The challenge of not knowing whether to forget or remember good or bad memories. Another thing this poem talks about is remembering their memories and not the family that they are with. Which completely relates to Lily’s life at the Boatwright’s house.
ReplyDeleteThis poem relates to lily’s life in multiple ways. For instance her distant memory of what happened to her mother she constantly remembers it but wants to believe that it is not true. I feel that this poem is just like her life. Its indecisive, just like lily is with her choices. For example when she was constantly deavading on when to tell the Boatwright’s why she was really at there home. In many ways I believe this poem is just like her life.
The conflict in this poem is mainly confusion. People are telling her one thing, and she knows something else. She is unsure who to trust. "They want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine." She is as confused as a newborn baby in the world. She wants to remember both things, but they are two different memories. I have been in this situation before. My friends told me to believe in one thing, but I was thinking of something else. I can definitely relate to this poem.
ReplyDeleteThis poem can easily relate to Lily's life. She is not sure what is the truth and what are lies anymore. In the situation with her mother, all she remembers is picking up the gun and shooting her mother. Did she really kill her mother? She asks this question throughout the book. Finally in the end, it is answered by T. Ray. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you." The truth was finally released like air from a balloon. If I were Lily, I would just accept it. What is done is done. You can not change the past.
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ReplyDeleteThe poem by Lucille Clifton means that people have different views and perspectives on things. The poem starts out by her saying, “they ask me to remember.” Even though it says they ask it is more of a way to change the person thinking on the topic. This topic is basically Lily’s views on her mother’s death. When she says “but they want me to remember their memories” they are trying to change her memories to be their perspectives on the memories. Then at the end she states, “and I keep remembering mine”, to show that her memories are different from the person that it is trying to change them for her. Overall, the conflict is that the writer of the poem, Lucille Clifton, is having a hard time thinking of the memory she remembers because somebody is trying to change it so that she will remember it differently.
This poem relates to Lily’s life because T.Ray is trying to make Lily remember her mother differently than she does herself. The first line is T.Ray commanding Lily to think her mother had left her and had not cared about her. This is to make Lily feel bad so he has more control over her. This confused Lily because she had her own memories of her mother that collided with his. It made her question the real memory and this led to her finding the truth about her mother. The poem line “and I keep remembering mine.” This relates because it shows that her memories of Deborah were conflicting with T. Ray’s. It had partially forced her to run away because the confusion made her want to learn the truth.
ReplyDelete“They want me to remember their memories, and I keep on remembering mine.” In this poem by Lucille Clifton, it is evident that there is a conflict. That conflict is that the main character in the poem is remembering his or her own memories like a person when they are asleep, instead of the memories of the other people. This is most likely due to the fact that the main character went through some time of rough past, or a traumatic experience. Because of this he/she cannot overcome this memory, and this memory is one they cannot stop thinking about. Therefore, they can only remember their memory, and not the ones of the other people. That is the conflict in the poem.
“She has roach legs protruding through her clothes, sticking through the cage of her ribs, down her torso, six of them, three on each side.” The poem is very similar to Lily’s life. In her life, she is always pondering something, and can be very analytic like a scientist at times. Lily is constantly reminiscing about her mother, and experiences flashbacks about her mom’s death many times in the book. This is related to the line in the poem “I keep on remembering mine (memories).” During nights in the honey house, she imagines the worst possibilities that can happen to her. One night, she imagined her mother with the legs of a cockroach. That is how the poem relates to the life of Lily Owens. I can relate to Lily’s experience through a text-to-text connection. Jeremy, the main character in “Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life,” lost his dad in the novel. He always remembers his own memories with his dad, in a similar way Lily does with her mom. Both teenagers are not complete (emotionally, due to the loss of Jeremy’s dad and Lily’s mom) like puzzles with one piece left.
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“They want me to remember their memories, and I keep on remembering mine.” In this poem by Lucille Clifton, it is evident that there is a conflict. That conflict is that the main character in the poem is remembering his or her own memories like a person when they are asleep, instead of the memories of the other people. This is most likely due to the fact that the main character went through some time of rough past, or a traumatic experience. Because of this he/she cannot overcome this memory, and this memory is one they cannot stop thinking about. Therefore, they can only remember their memory, and not the ones of the other people. That is the conflict in the poem.
ReplyDelete“She has roach legs protruding through her clothes, sticking through the cage of her ribs, down her torso, six of them, three on each side.” The poem is very similar to Lily’s life. In her life, she is always pondering something, and can be very analytic like a scientist at times. Lily is constantly reminiscing about her mother, and experiences flashbacks about her mom’s death many times in the book. This is related to the line in the poem “I keep on remembering mine (memories).” During nights in the honey house, she imagines the worst possibilities that can happen to her. One night, she imagined her mother with the legs of a cockroach. That is how the poem relates to the life of Lily Owens. I can relate to Lily’s experience through a text-to-text connection. Jeremy, the main character in “Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life,” lost his dad in the novel. He always remembers his own memories with his dad, in a similar way Lily does with her mom. Both teenagers are not complete (emotionally, due to the loss of Jeremy’s dad and Lily’s mom) like puzzles with one piece left.
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The conflict in this poem is about someone being told to remeber their memories, but all ththey could think about is their own. For Example My mom was telling me to remember something about her but all i could think about are things about me. Lily tries to remeber what her mother was like but she keeps on remebering her killing her mother.
ReplyDeleteThis has to do with lilys life by making lily the one who remebers her memories and not her mothers or T-rays. Lily tries to remeber her mother but never stops thinking about how her mother left her and how she killed her. This reminds me of myself. When i try to remeber good memories of otherpeople, i always get brought back to the bad memories of my own.
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