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  • Essay / The Holy Hump - 599

    When I wrote "The Holy Hump", I was trying to criticize William for being so stereotypical and also "stupid". The poem begins, “William, my friend and roommate.” (Sanchez, line 1) I am trying to tell the reader that even if what could happen, William is still my friend and I don't hate him. The next line “I want to know your thing” (Sanchez, line 2) shows how I want to learn to be a little like William. He has some sort of magic trick that gets him something that I can't get. The next two lines "Let me know cause I wish I was that great" (Sanchez, line 3) and "Let me guess that's your soccer kick" (Sanchez, line 4) here I try to say how much I wish I had this legacy and all its glory, the line that follows answers my questions as to where William's power comes from, football. This entire stanza explains to the reader where the narrator and William are coming from, it never talks about the reasoning for why this is happening. Rather, it is about setting the stage, Felix begins to tell us how he feels about William and will later introduce the conflicts of the poem. Felix is ​​pr...