A historian's blog devoted to Shakespeare's characters
Bob Dylan was awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature for having been able to be the voice of a generation which was in the process of being granted freedom of speech. Indeed the decade of the 60's was a time for ideological and political changes. Accordingly, the lyrics of "The Times Are a Changing" could have been a good exemplification of the global situation, a fine mantra for the decade. "The loser now will be later to win", for example is powerful line to feel motivated to start doing new things and be part of the change. The lyrics of the song contain words that really transmit emotions of protest and a necessity to express ourselves freely in folk.
Being ashamed of her life. In the book Esperanza gets lots of stares and passive agressive comments from her peers, teachers and strangers about her living conditions. Her family tells her that she was born on the "devils day" and it greatly effects the way she sees herself and her Aunts health. She greatly wants to leave her family and never come back when shes older. She doesn't like the life she has and wants to put it behind her.
[sorry if some details are off I haven't read the book in almost a year]
The devices have been used by the author to show the hopeless and bad condition of the agrarians. Even though they are not enjoying any good condition, but still they have to live there and fight to survive and earn their livelihood. They had to swarm the town even if they did not like to.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The chapter talks about the poor conditions of the agrarians. This was done because of the industrialization. The big industries and technology pushed the agrarians on the roads and made their condition miserable and despair. They have to move from one place to another in the search of food and to survive even though they did not like the condition with which they were treated. but they had no option.
Parallelism is used in one of the paragraphs to focus on the simplicity and the despair of the agrarian folks "a simple agrarian folk who had not changed......who had not farmed.....they had not grown up. This repetition of phrases and clauses is parallelism.
