All literature uses some kinds of special ways to make a story or a poem interesting. The appearance, actions, speech and thoughts of their characters illustrate most stories. In the stories and poems that I read: a song in the Front Yard, Girls, Mother and son, A conversation with my father and His story. Each of them expresses their point of view through a female point of view. All of these poems and story had …showed first 75 words of 1668 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1668 total…hidden a meaningful value. Authors wrote about pain and exile possibly to lighten the spirits of those fortunate to have the things that had been taken away from the people in the stories, or maybe people of this period just enjoyed reading depressing stories. These five poems and short stories did a great job of showing how reality of life is and how it really causes pain amongst the people suffering from it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**