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Connotation.

Imagery - The blood laying on the ground.

Symbolism - The cry symbolizes the last motion for help the boy made. Everyone heard his cry, but no one helped him.

Metaphor and Simile - "I have always heard him deal with death.

I have always heard the should, the volley" (780)

"I joined the wild and killed him

with knowledgeable unknowing" (780)

Attitude

Paraphrase

The author feels sympathetic toward the subject of the poem.

Shift

The narrator lives in a rough neighborhood, and almost everyday he hears gunshots. On a certain day he heard multiple gunshots and a young boy was shot. The narrator did not help the boy, and the boy died.

"And I have killed him ever" (780)

The narrator understands that it was ultimately his fault for the death of the boy. The narrator could have saved the boy if he chose to take action instead of doing nothing

Title: Original

Theme

From the title we can conclude that the poem is about a murder or death.

Death: While it was the boy that was shot and died. It was the narrator that took the toll of the death.

Title: Revisited

The ignorance of people to all the problems that happen around them during daily life.

The Boy Died in My Alley

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

Background

Born in Topeka, Kansas.

Moved to Chicago when very young

Stayed in Chicago her whole life

Poetry festival in 1962

Moved back to Kansas in 1994

Ceremony after her death.

Stephanie Aguilar

Cameron Dempster

Kayla Bell

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