Family and True Feelings

As a rule, it is frequently demonstrated that so as to stay away from issues, for example, demise, individuals decide to keep their gatekeeper up as opposed to opening up to each other. Demise is a subject that is generally kept implicit of when one isn't prepared for another to pass. Individuals, families particularly, will in general stay silent or set up a front empowering one from communicating their actual emotions on the issue. There is battle between allowing our emotions to feelings, and having the option to go about as a solid figure is regularly appeared in writing, for example, poetry.In her sonnet, â€Å"Legacies,† Nikki Giovanni shows how families decide to make the subject of death a â€Å"touchy† subject, rather than being open about it, which is appeared through her characters, the grandma and the granddaughter. In â€Å"Legacies,† Nikki Giovanni shows the battle that the grandma and the granddaughter suffer when the subject of death is raised. Th is battle can be raised when convention is being passed down. Regardless of whether the individual needs to acknowledge it or not, the convention is being passed down in light of the fact that demise is in the future.The grandma needs the granddaughter to figure out how to make moves, which is a long running family custom. The grandma, attempting to maintain a strategic distance from the undeniable explanation, doesn't clarify why the granddaughter would need to figure out how to make the rolls. Rather than connecting with her granddaughter, the grandma forgets about it and says, â€Å"Lord these youngsters. † in light of the grandmas proclamation about creation the rolls, the granddaughter says that she doesn't need become familiar with the convention