Suicide Note : Not Good Enough

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Suicide is an all too common way of death for many. It becomes the last outlet for many people who feel that they can no longer take on the stresses of everyday life. In Janice Mirikitani’s poem “Suicide Note”, a young girl explains to her parents how she can no longer handle the pressure of trying to get their approval. She is constantly expressing how she knows she did not meet their expectations. The writer of this note also tells her parents that if maybe she had been born a son, she would be loved and respected more. Throughout this poem you can see how she has clearly struggled with the pressure from her parents for a long period of ...

... way to please them, and suicide is her last option. The shaved ice is also like her life at this time because it will soon quickly fade away.         At the end of her note, she says that she hopes they “scatter my feathers like unspoken song.” (60-61) He feathers are now gone, and they seemed to have represented her talents, dreams, ambitions, thoughts, ideas, and everything else that completed her. She hopes that they will spread these things out so that maybe the world, especially her parents, could see what an amazing person she was. She wants her parents to regret not giving her the love and attention that they should

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