Allusion Poem Final

Being the eldest
The natural leader of the group
it was no wonder
why I expected so much

Chin up, shoulders back
With brown hair framing my pale face
and a calculating look,
I looked at my siblings

I adored everything about them
I adored their smiles, their words,
and the way they looked up to me
And because I did,
I needed to build a mindset,
a world, that wasn't perfect.

We were too smart for happy endings
too smart to think that the world was nothing
but riding off into the sunset with a happily ever after, no.
There will be burdens, troubles, tragedies,
that weren't afraid to hit us square in the face.

But in the end,
no matter where we've been,
or who we've met,
it was the three of us against the world,

and together, we had a sanctuary,
"a small, safe place in a troubling world,
like an oasis in a vast desert,
or an island in a stormy sea."
Together, we were home.

The allusions in this poem include Violet's building/inventing skills, and how I "build" a mindset for my siblings and Violet's physical appearance. The movie/book also stresses the lack of happy endings in the case of the Baudelaire children, so I included the whole, "anti-happy-ending" feel to my poem. Also, in the movie, the Baudelaire children create a sanctuary our of their parents' silhouette photo, so I included the photo in the graphic, as well as talked about it in the poem, including a quote from the movie as well. Lastly, at the end of the movie, the Baudelaires receive a letter that never came from their parents, in which the parent's state that, "..know that as long as you have each other, you have your family. And you are home," so, I emphasized that during the last stanza of my poem.