The Gift

Part I of Essay
In "" by Louise Glock, the little boy is calling oggie, oggie, at his front door. This could mean several things, first we would have to look at clues. The poem states that the mother is praying to GOD. One could infer that the boys dog died and he is calling without rewa ....

Part II of Essay
.... be the real meaning. The child at the screen door might just be a metaphor and what the child is really doing is calling for someone to help him because he is ill. But yet all he does is become peace-fully sicker. And the mom is praying for him to get better and hopes that one day true health will come back to this youth. Or in shorter terms, The Gift of life. Those were my guesses, or hypothesis of what the real meaning to The Gift were. And I don't care how silly they may have sounded but those are what I think the meanings were. ....