The Gift In ‘The Gift’ by Louise Glock, the little boy is calling oggi e, oggi e, a this 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 reward to his lost friend. Therefore the most logical response would be that the boy was in fact calling for his dead dog.
In the opening paragraph I stated what I thought the main idea for the poem was. But that does not mean that is the only message implied. The child also was calling for oggi e, oggi e, but in fact every once in a while a dog did stop by and the mom pointed this fact out and said she hoped the boy would not call this an accident. That could mean that the boys dog never died but ran away, and that god sent the dog back to them. Another thing that could have meaning in this poem would be that the boy could be calling for a friend to play with because he is unpopular with the other children. And ‘the beast that always cam to him could be a bully.
That could in fact 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. Orin shorter terms, The Gift of life. Those were my guesses, or hypothesis of what the real meaning to The Gift were.
The Term Paper on Watching Of Telivision By Our Children
Most parents I know worry about how much television their children are watching, but I see very little being done about actually cutting down their children’s television time. The average child watches three to four hours of T. V. a day and another two and a half hours more on the television watching movies or playing video games, for a total of six and a half hours of television a day. ...
And I don’t care how silly they may have sounded but those are what I think the meanings were.
