2. Walker inserted the poem to show that people can change as well as accept who they are. When I read this for the first time I was confused I thought that Alice Walker visited the desert that she was describing. I re read the poem and realized it was a metaphor describing how people can change.
3. Walker uses the same phrases in the poem to catch the readers eye and to show the importance of her points. She uses the phrases “I remember”, and when she states her age. This is an example of her trying to get her point across to the readers.
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1. Walker stops feeling cute once she got shot in the eye with a pellet gun. Her brothers played a role in this event because they were the ones who shot Walker with the