Surname 1 B Name- Md Jahidul Islam Professor- April Andres Course - English 201(Yellow) 9 Date- 03/13/19 Thesis Wrone The Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito is a sarcastic poem detailing the poverty, inequality, and drug addiction existing in the ghettos and slums of the United States cities. In this poem, the author blames God for creating all these and seeing them as good. At the beginning of the poem, however, the author makes a critical statement that “before the beginning, God created God” (lines 1-2). Here, he makes a crucial background of his ‘God' whom the author should assume to be the second in the creation. Here, he presents the identity of this second God debatable and thus allows the audience to debate the real meaning of this God who creates evil. The poem details the evil in society, especially oppression and poverty facing the lower-class what people in the world and thus condemns the systems of governance which create and sustain this Where doe it condem? inequality. Poem? An overview of the poem allows one to appreciate the resentment that the author has towards God. First, he presents a very sketchy plan of how God worked throughout the seven That's days and by doing so points out the irresponsibility and self-centeredness of this creator. For an instance, he claims that after the first day, God created again in the third day “because on the opinion second day God was out of town” (line 16). This sketchy plan of creation is sarcastic, and it mot a contradicts the order of creation as detailed in the Bible whereby the story of creation was one of Last fact orderliness and careful planning to come up with something beautiful. Additionally, the author name highlights all the negative things accompanying poverty and the lower-income citizens living in Last Name Lastiname the slums. This includes drugs, illnesses, racism, capitalism, and degradation among others. Therefore, by presenting God as sketchy in his creation plan and creating only negative things, the author shows his resentment of God and his order, Not an author Other than his resentment of God, the author mostly focuses on the evil afflicting the a poet. people in the ghettos and how it has pinned them down as their God watches and works to ensure that the situation continues. The author claims that “God commanded the rivers of garbage & filthto flow gracefully through the ghettos” (lines 13-14). Overall, the poem decries the problems of the people in the ghettos and the slums and how God has created those problems. The poem focuses on evil and poverty and how they thrive in the ghettos and slums and furthermore works to present the people who are suffering from the same as helpless. This is especially seen in the last stanza where God tells them to be cool and they remain cool. The people come across as helpless since they have been placed in this situation by God. once again this is The main question that pops up in this poem is who God is and all indicators point towards the government or people in power. By explaining that God started by creating God, the you author shows that there are two Gods; the original one who was before the beginning and a inopinion. second one who was created by the first. One can hypothesize that Miguel does not blame God in the conventional sense for the problems of the ghetto. Instead, he blames those people in power for the oppression, poverty, inequality, and the status quo. It is evident that the evil God is less than mortal because he has a running nose and even goes on vacation to Puerto Rico after collecting his overtime pay. Unlike the Biblical God, this God is mortal and hence must be a human being. Here, he highlights the corruption and self-centeredness of politicians who neglect the slums and even pass policies which make them worse. Surname 4 Work Cited Pinero, Miguel. “The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito."All Poetry. Retrieved from https://allpoetry.com/The-Book-of-Genesis-According-to-St.-Miguelito. Accessed 20 Mar. 2019. Turo Sauces اسرارا مل رہا This was Analytical pape. la research paper. 4 Assor La ins Sorry Revorite Surname 3 Miguel condemns the government and people in power for neglecting the plight of the poor by highlighting the problems which they face and how class and social inequality have worked to exacerbate them. The poem assumes a close allusion to the story of creation in the Bible but takes a sarcastic turn. Instead of God being immortal, orderly, and caring, he is mortal, reckless, and disregarding. This God is a creation of the immortal God in the Bible and hence is a human being. The poem works to awaken awareness on the helplessness of the low-income earners and people living in the slums, clearly focusing on the negligence of the government towards them. Last in inome not ist ? What y yoem 0 hi
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