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Anita Tri. W (201210100311254)


Nurul Raai!a (201210100311255)
"eni Nur #adilla$ (2012101003112%&)
Cla'' (()
)allad o* )irmin+$am
Ballad of Birmingham is a poem written by Dudley Randall in 1969.
It was written in response of the bombing of a church in Birmingham,
Alabama, 196. Ballad of birmingham despicts an African!American
mother and her child con"ersing about a #reedom $arch in the street of
Birmingham.
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%ne day a young girl wanted to celebrate a #reedom $arch in the
street of Birmingham with her friends. &he as'ed her mother to gi"e her
permission to go there. &he said, ($other dear, may I go downtown
instead out to play and march the street of Birmingham in a #reedom
$arch today)*. &he wanted to +oin the #reedom $arch, but her mother
didn,t let her go to the downtown. -er mother said, (.o baby, no, you
may not go.
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Birmingham is such a dangerous downtown that a little child
shouldn,t go there.*

After 'nowing she wasn,t allowed to go, she was "ery


sad.
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&he 'ept trying to persuade her mother so that she could go the
downtown.
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&he said, (.ot only me but also my friends are there*. &he
was "ery bored to stay at home. &he needed to play with her friends. &till,
her mother didn,t gi"e her a permisson.
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2onse3uently, she couldn,t go to
the downtown.
-er mother told her daughter that
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it was too dangerous to go
outside.
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Although their city had been free, million crimes haunting the
city were e"erywhere. #or instance, some people were 'illed and some
others were 'idnapped.
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.either good people nor bad people could be
guessed. &o she did not allow her belo"ed daughter to be close to the
danger.
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-owe"er, she did not want to see her daughter sad.
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&he ga"e
her another alternati"e to celebrate the independence day so that she
would be happy.
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&he got her daughter to go to the church instead of
playing outside.
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In church, she could see her other friends and sing in
the children,s choir together.
#inally she accepted her mother,s ad"ice. &he went to the bathroom
to ta'e a shower immediately.
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7pon dressing up in her bedroom, actually
she wanted to use an elegant long dress, but the dress was dirty and
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needed washing, so she chose the most beautiful clothes she e"er had.
Besides,
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Due to ha"ing a "ery special day, she put on her fa"orite and
e8pensi"e shoes.
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&he loo'ed "ery gorgeous as if she were an angel. .ow
she was ready to go to the church.
At the same moment her mother was glad to 'now her daughter
was going to attend the children,s choir in the church. &he assumed that
church was the most sacred place for all people, including her daughter.
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If she as'ed her daughter to go to the church instead of playing in the
street of Birmingham, she would be much safer there. &he smiled happily
when she saw her daughter get in hurry to the church. 9et, that was the
last smile upon her face.
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After she completed doing her chores at home, she decided to go
to the church.
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&he came there in order to see her daughter. &uddenly,
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while wal'ing along the street, she heard the e8plosion around there. It
was surprising her. &he was afraid because she as'ed her daughter to go
to the church. &he ran faster heading toward the sound of the e8plosion.
//
&he called her daughter for many times, but there was no answer. -er
eyes were being glassy, but she 'ept loo'ing for her daughter. &he clawed
through bits of glass and bric'.
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&he heard many people screaming
e"erywhere, but she only focused on her daughter. %ut of the blue, she
found a shoe her daughter wore. &he started crying and reali:ed that her
daughter had died in the church. &he regretted why she sent her daughter
there.
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&he wished she hadn,t as'ed her to see the death.
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;8planation
1. 7sing to + infnitive
/. 7sing such....that (expressing cause and efect)
. 7sing after (changing time clause to modifying adverbial phrase)
0. 7sing keep + verb-ing (gerund)
1. 7sing not only....but also
6. 7sing consquently (using transition to sho cause and efect)
4. 7sing too
5. 7sing although (shoing contrast)
9. 7sing neither....nor
16. 7sing hoever (shoing contrast)
11. 7sing so that (expressing purpose)
1/. 7sing causative !get"
1. 7sing parallel structure
10. 7sing upon + verb-ing (modifying adverbial phrase)
11. 7sing need + ving (passive meaning)
16. 7sing due to
14. 7sing as if
15. 7sing conditional sentence type ##
19. 7sing complete + verb-ing (gerund)
/6. 7sing in order to
/1.
$xpressing the idea of !during the same time" in modifying
adverbial phrase
//. 7sing but (shoing contrast)
/. 7sing verb of perception
/0. 7sing ish

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