Employ your knowledge of using figurative language and techniques in enhancing the given text. Read the following text and enhance it using figurative language and literary techniques: Roland Mason had had a very bad day; in fact, bad things had been happening to Roland since quite sometime now. He had failed his final high school tests even after Mr. Jacobson, his math teacher, had agreed to give him extra classes after hours. The reason was he had not once appeared for the extra class, resulting in Mr. Jacobson calling upon his parents to tell them about Roland’s absence. His father had refused to give him any pocket money now for a week, and Roland was feeling miserable; his mother had left for her mother’s home after crying away the night. Even she had refused to speak to him, he had no hope left of getting any help.

Demonstrating understanding of jem's development one way to demonstrate understanding of character and theme is by writing from the perspective of a character. for this assignment, compose a short poem from the perspective of jem. your poem should detail his feelings about either a. his father, atticus or b. mrs. dubose. the poem must accurately trace the progression of jem's attitudes and beliefs, highlighting the important events and shifts in his perspective detailed above. your writing should also sound like jem, using voice and word choice that reflects the voice and word choice found in the novel. the poem can be a free poem (meaning it does not need to rhyme or follow a particular format). it should be a minimum of twenty-lines in length, have a title, and follow conventional rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.