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Thesis: In her poem, "I Once Was a Child," Victoria Chang utilizes a purposeful lack of punctuation and sense of ambiguity to convey the lack of control that the speaker experienced when they were a child.

Topic Sentence: Throughout the piece, Chang chooses to never include punctuation in order to convey how overwhelmed and confused the speaker felt as a child, highlighting their inability to control their circumstances.

Topic Sentence: Furthermore, the gaps between different stanzas in order to imply the different meanings behind each line and phrase.

Topic Sentence: Finally, the general sense of ambiguity throughout the piece highlights the speakers lack of understanding of their circumstances, and thus their inability to control their life because of this lack of understanding.

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In the poem, “I Once Was a Child,” Victoria Chang uses ambiguity, lack of punctuation and neatness to express the inability to have control in situations.

Chang uses ambiguity to show parallels of times and where there couldn’t be any control over it.

Chang throughout the poem writes with a lack of punctuation to highlight the occurring events of the inability to stay in control.

With the unorganized paragraphs and ends of sentences, Chang uses them to symbolize the unpredictable actions and things that will take place.

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Thesis-In “I Once Was a Child,” Victoria Chang expresses her time being controlled by different elements of her life through the utilization of ambiguity and a unique punctuation style in order to show that that sense of control can be characterized.
Body 1: Chang refers to being a child in all phases of her life, thus feeling this sense that she has been always controlled by an ambiguous higher system.
Body 2: The muddled recollection of Chang’s past clearly shows how much she didn’t have control in her life as it is not in a linear form of storytelling. Chang goes back and forth and makes connections from her childhood to her adulthood, revealing that she has been under the thumb of someone or an idea for most of her life.
Body 3: The lack of punctuation shows this quick succession of being pulled through life without her own grasp on it. The poem structure serves as this continuous line of consciousness that shows that she couldn’t stop and control things in her life herself.

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Thesis: In the poem, "I Once Was a Child," author Victoria Chang is able to create parallels that highlight the different perspectives that she experienced when she was young compared to what she experiences in her adulthood
Body 1: With the use of ambiguity, Chang is able to create parallels that highlight the different perspectives that she experienced when she was young compared to what she experiences currently
Body 2: With the use of untraditional sentences, Chang structurizes the poem in a choppy and frenzied manner that supports her growing resentment towards adulthood
Body 3: Additionally, Chang using untraditional stanza gaps that merge and separate different events helps to support the idea of how unpredictable and quick life really is

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Thesis: In the poem, "I Once was a Child", author Victoria Chang utilizes ambiguity to convey a cause and effect relationship of the lack of control.

B1: To begin with, the structure of the poem is formatted to highlight the end result of an event occurring.

B2: In addition, the narrator speaks of the firing event where she had no control of whether she or others could stay or not.

B3: Furthermore, Change writes of the death of her father being inevitable to represent how powerless one is against nature.

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Thesis: In the poem "I Once Was a Child" Victoria Chang utilizes an irregular structure with no form of punctuation establish ambiguity in her piece and to evoke the complexity of a child's confusion over a capitalist world, making them feel a lack of control in their life.
B1:  There is not a single form or piece of punctuation, utilized in order to disorient the audience, allowing for them to reread and interpret the piece in their own way.
B2: Through the irregular form of writing, it allows for establishing the lack of control she had as a child, through a lack of how the piece looks.
B3: The last portion of her story discusses capitalism leading to someone always having say over others, revealing why she felt a lack of control of her life, but allows for ambiguity thanks to the structure.

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Thesis: The poem, "Naming of Parts", Henry Reed uses repetition, juxtaposition, and imagery in order to illustrate the effectiveness the conditions of military has on its soldiers.
TS1: Throughout the poem, Reed utilizes repetition to emphasize the continuous demands occurring in the military lifestyle.
TS2: Continuing on, juxtaposition is revealed as the strict orders with the rifles differentiates from the observation of nature's beauty.
TS3: Reed's usage of imagery allows him to highlight the glee and delightfulness associated with nature as the soldiers face lessons of the war.

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Thesis: In her poem "I Once Was a Child", Victoria Chang uitzles ambiguity and a lack of punctuation to represent the disarray and lack of control she felt as a child.
B1: Chang utilizes ambiguity regarding being the bosses daughter allude to the lack of control the speaker had over her own choices.
B2: Change once again utilities ambiguity  to present how the speaker once again felt out of control regarding her father death.
B3: The lack of punctuation throughout the poem presents it almost as an unorganized ramble of the all the moments the speaker has lacked control.

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Thesis: In the poem " I Once Was a Child" the author Victoria Chang uses structure and ambiguity to reveal the strings of control and how one is deprived of control.
Body 1: Chang shows the reader how the strings of control the speaker, yet how she refuses them and is able to break free.
Body 2: Throughout the poem, the poet continues to describe situations where the speaker lacked control.
Body 3: However, despite giving examples of control over herself an portraying herself as powerless, Chang at the same time asserts her control over the reader by structure of the poem itself.

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Thesis: Within the poem, "I Once Was a Child," Victoria Chang incorporates ambiguity, symbolism, and the lack of punctuation to represent the ramifications of losing control in her adolescence and her attempts at resolution.
Body 1: Through utilizing ambiguity throughout the poem, Chang emphasizes the harsh reality of losing control in a domain full of opportunity, a trait that she inherited from her fathers.
Body 2 : Chang utilizes symbolism through conveying one's relevance in the work place to our nations governing systems
Body 3: Chang additionally portrays the ideal of losing control through her lack of punctuation, conveying the time of man versus nature

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Thesis: In his poem, “Naming of Parts”, Henry Reed uses naturalistic imagery, an instructional tone, and periods to paint the picture of a teacher and their students.
Body 1: Using naturalistic imagery throughout the poem, Reed insinuates the joys of youth and nature that the students are missing out on while being taught.
Body 2: Reed also uses an instructional, bordering on monotonic, tone to accentuate the presence of the teacher teaching the students.
Body 3:  Lastly the use of periods in the poem make the lines seem like actual instructions, or rather teachings, instead of poetic rhetoric, which then again highlights the teacher-student dynamic.

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Thesis: In the poem, "Naming of Parts," poet Henry Reed utilizes an authoritative, condescending tone, periods, and references to nature to convey the differing worlds of the instructor and the trainee: a world of experience versus a world of innocence.
Body 1: Throughout the poem, Reed portrays the instructor to have an authoritative and condescending tone through his word choice.
Body 2: Moreover, to portray the authoritative tone of the instructor more clearly, Reed utilizes periods to illuminate the shift of perspectives from the instructor to the pupil.
Body 3: To accentuate the trainee's differing perspective, Reed references nature to reflect the pupil's innocence.

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"I Once Was a Child" - Eric Cupples (Absent)

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"I Once Was a Child" - Eric Cupples (Absent)

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Thesis: Within the poem, I Once Was a Child, Victoria Chang uses complex a irregular structure from a stream of consciousness and symbolize in order to convey the speaker's ambiguity or lack of control through childhood.

Body 1: The poem includes a lack of punctuation that makes it difficult to differentiate between the 2 speakers within I Once Was a Child and serves to disordinate the reader allowing for complex interpretation.

Body 2: Through the complex punctuation, the author is able to create a stream of consciousness that explains the feeling of the swift progression through childhood.

Body 3: Finally, the author expresses the feeling of losing her father which serves to show the speakers lack of control and ambiguity.

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Thesis: Throughout the poem "I Once Was a Child", Victoria Chang uses stream of consciousness and symbolism in order to convey the speaker's resolve to not let the past dwell upon her and to move on.
Body 1: By using stream of consciousness, which consists of lack of punctuation, the speaker explains how seemingly fast her life has progressed without her having control over it.
Body 2: This apparent loss of control is further exemplified by the speaker's submission to her father and "someone who owns the land".
Body 3: On top of the speaker's overall ambiguity, children's toys such as lollipops and spinning tops convey the controlling nature that society has on her.

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Thesis: The poem, I Once Was a Child, uses a structure from a dreams and memories through a stream of consciousness in order to display the speaker's ambiguity through a loss of control during their childhood.

Body 1: The speaker touches on the fact that they lost their mother and father which shows a loss of control due to there being a lack of guidance from them in their life.

Body 2: The lack of punctuation in the poem causes the reader to struggle deciphering between which of the two speakers is speaking, creating ambiguity.

Body 3: The unique punctuation also contributes to the reader using ambiguity towards the idea of growing up during childhood which can be assumed due to the stream of consciousness from the speaker.

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Thesis: Within her poem "I Once Was a Child," Victoria Chang uses ambiguity and lack of punctuation to express her defiance towards not having control over her life.
B1: Chang uses ambiguity in describing her lack of control in her work life despite moving to America, a land of new opportunities.
B2: Chang also creates ambiguity in describing her father's hardships and how it reflected her search for control in her life through adversity.
B3: The lack of punctuation throughout the poem ultimately symbolizes Chang's attempts to break the barriers of her life and figuratively assert control over the reader.

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Thesis: Victoria change, writer of the poem, "I Once Was a Child," uses structure and ambiguity to reveal the strings and knots of control and how one can be and is deprived of control.

B1: Chang shows the reader how the strings control the speaker. However, she refuses them and is able to set herself free.

B2: Throughout the poem, the poet continues to describe certain situations where the speaker is lacking control.

B3: However, despite giving examples of control over herself an portraying herself as powerless, Chang at the same time asserts her control over the reader by structure of the poem itself.

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Thesis- In her poem, "I Once Was a Child', Victoria Chang utilizes punctuation and ambiguity to express the lack of control she felt as a child.
BP 1- Chang doesn't use punctuation as a way to gain some control, particularly over the reader.
BP 2- Additionally by creating an ambiguous meaning in her poem Chang is able to criticize more than her lack of control but her fathers as well.
BP 3- Finally the last stanzas show Chang's lack of control in a larger way as she becomes an American.

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Thesis: In the poem, "Naming of Parts", Henry Reed uses structure, imagery, and diction to highlight the contrast between war and the beauty of nature.
B1: Henry Reed uses a specific structure with each stanza of his poem to contrast war from the nature described at the end of each stanza.
B2: Throughout the poem, imagery is used by Reed to describe the beauty of nature in contrast to the hardships of war
B3: Reed uses specific diction when describing the parts of the rifle and the different, positive aspects of nature.

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Thesis: In her poem "I Once Was a Child", Victoria Chang uses ambiguity to express her gratefulness for the opportunities in America, but also her disillusionment for the consequences of capitalism.
Body 1: Chang draws a connection between level of work ethic to "prize", meaning people get what they deserve but the punishment can be too harsh.
Body 2: She notes that capitalism and equality can be harsh but accepting, as "in this land" people get fired easily but women have more opportunities.
Body 3: Through the patriotic songs, Chang admits that she is proud to be American but understands that an emphasis on private property can be negative.