The "I" in this poem is middle-aged? Where did you get that idea?
The mother is looking for a suitable husband for her daughter ... how old is the daughter?? The daughter is the "I" in this poem.
And remember that the author is not necessarily the main character here (the "I").
Otherwise, it reads OK.
I have finished all of the questions, just need someone to look over them. I have posted these questions before, but someone told me to re-do them and I decided to post them again.
Canada Day Love Match
My mother stalked her future
son in law, convinced he was the one
for me. Through the crowd at the Forks Market, she kept behind him like a cat ready to pounce.
I kept out of his line of sight. Blind
to us, he watched other women.
Red turban, sunglasses, shorts, and T-shirt,
a kara on his right hand- a true Canadian.
When I was a teenager, my mother
was much too strict. She kept me in the closet, but I learned from friends with older sisters as my mom did when she grew up in the heat of africa.
My grandmother married at fifteen, did not know desire, and could not share it with her daughter.
I watch my mother, following him to the parking lot to see what he drives.
She races after him, but he vanishes in a sea of red and white hats. She says, "next time we'll get his phone number." We leave empty-handed and walk to the bridge to watch the fireworks. I close my eyes and feel the eruption of silver sparks electrify the sky.
Question 1. : Describe the persona speaking in "Canada Day Love Match", referring to details in the poem that support your view.
Answer: The persona speaking in the poem is a female who is middle-aged because she can relate to the incidents that the character in the poem is going through.
Question 2 : Describe the mood created in the reader/listener of "Canada Day Love Match", referring to details in the poem that create this mood.
Answer: The mood created in the reader/listener from the poem is "annoyed." Although the character does not express that she is annoyed by her mother's actions, the reader can feel that the female character is annoyed. Her mom is stalking her future son-in-law, which states that her mom's behavior is annoying.
Question 3: Describe the tone or attitude of the author in "Canada Day Love Match", referring to details in the poem that create this tone.
Answer: The attitude of the author is tolerant. Even though her mom was acting "weird" by stalking her future husband, the author stayed calm and tolerated her mother. Although, all day she endured her mom, she forgot about everything and enjoyed the fireworks.
Question 4:. What idea about assessing others does the author of "Canada Day Love Match" convey to readers? Support with references from the poem.
ANSWER:
The author conveys a message about people who never made choices for themselves. For example, the authors mother never had a choice to who she was going to marry. Her grandmother also did not know what desire was. These type of people like to know about others by sneaking up on them because they do not feel comfortable talking face to face. An example of this is when she describes how her future husband looked like and what he was wearing. Then she, suddenly talked about why her mother was sneaking up on him and how her grandmother were never open to things like this.
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She is young, I guess she is in her twenties. Instead of writing "I" can I use the word daughter?
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