Analysis Of The Poem The Colonel By Carolyn Forche, The...

The topic of justice has been talked about by many individuals in our societies. Writers too have not been left out in telling about the same issue. All people would like fair treatment but, in our communities, we find that some individuals do not get fair justice. Authors of different genres work very hard to trying to create an understanding on the issue of justice. By use of various themes in different writing, all talking about justice, we can come up with a presentation of how justice is displayed in our society. This paper will discuss the topic of justice as presented differently in the poem â€Å"The Colonel† by Carolyn Forche, the play. â€Å"No Crime† by Billy Goda, and the story â€Å"The Lottery â€Å"by Shirley Jackson. In the poem â€Å"The Colonel† by Carolyn Forche, the narrator is acting as a witness in a case where the colonel is a victim. The theme right to justice seems to be the author’s objective for composing the poem. From the poem, the issue of justice is seen in the first sentence where the narrator says it was true since he or she was in his house. (Forche,1289). The narrator says that the colonel came with a sack having human ears and poured them on the table (Forche, 1289). The human ears show cruelty and injustice treatment of the citizens. The colonel is expected to protect his people but not mistreat them. Colonel talks arrogantly regarding the people who were likely to be the victims where he tells the narrator that â€Å"they can go fuck themselves,† (Forche,1289)