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    message was written on an Irish headstone reading‚ “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal‚ love leaves a memory no one can steal”. A loss of a loved one can leave a scar in ones heart and may not be healed for a long time. In “Shoofly Pie” by Naomi Shihab Nye‚ the main character Mattie‚ suffers from the loss of her loving mother due to cancer. Because of this tragedy‚ Mattie becomes grief stricken and the only way she gains comfort is through cooking. While working at the “Good For You” restaurant

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    someone just by their physical appearance alone. For many people‚ the root of their anxiety stems from the fear of others judging or evaluating them because of they way they look or act. The short stories “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville and “Hum” by Naomi Shihab Nye both illustrate the uselessness of judging a book by its cover. In the short story “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville‚ Vince‚ the main character‚ discovers that people are not always what them seem. In this story Vince‚ who is questioning his sexuality

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    into a new country and making it their home. In the poems ‚ “My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop” by Naomi Shihab Nye and “My Tongue is Divided into Two” by Quique Aviles as a reader you get to understand the different cultural experiences and perspectives from immigrants. Overall‚ the life of an immigrant can come with many challenges and struggles. “My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop” by Naomi Shihab Nye and “My Tongue is Divided into Two” by Quique Aviles addresses some of the cultural experiences

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    Hughes‚ Dunbar‚ Angelou‚ and Nye used their respective poems to try and celebrate the richness of diversity that can be found in self-expression. The poems collectively relate to the Grad at Grad subgoal by unapologetically endorsing it. Inspired by the poets being victimized by bias and prejudice firsthand‚ the poems each utilized these experiences by touching on the psychological effects of discrimination and recommending that love can the only viable solution to combat this problem. Once people

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    Shoofly Pie Essay

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    Response to Literature Essay “Shoofly Pie” By Naomi Shihab Nye The death of a loved one can be overwhelming‚ yet people who experience such loss must eventually find a way to move past the grief. In the short story "Shoofly Pie" by Naomi Shihab Nye‚ the author explores how food enables the characters to memorialize their dead and move beyond their grief. Carefully noting each developmental step‚ Nye’s engaging attention to detail moves her characters through the grieving process. Re-read the

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    river‚ fish‚ earth (connecting logic: Naomi is describing life among the outdoors. The fish needs the river to live.) Strands: birds/birdhouse (connecting logic: The birds are in their natural habitat/safe zone watching the sleeping cat. The cat is important to the birds because they know it can hurt them.) Strands: tear/cheek‚ idea (connecting logic: When people have an idea that they feel strongly about‚ they may become emotional about it and may tear up. Naomi is describing an emotional scene.) shuffling

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    Two Countries

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    Two countries is a beautiful poem by Naomi Shihab Nye. The poem is clearly inspired by the poet’s own life as she is a woman of two worlds: Palestine and America. Nye makes use of an extended metaphor throughout the piece‚ representing herself as skin. This is done in a double entendre sort of way‚ symbolizing a negative connotation in the first stanza and weaving its way into a positive meaning in the last. In the first part of the poem‚ skin is utilized for its description of being the exterior

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    Gaza by the Israeli military. In Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem "For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza‚ Age 15‚" she criticizes and inspires society to object and respond to the unrest and violence occurring in Gaza‚ through contrasting the bullet’s effects to those of stray objects and criticizing the bullet and how it is personified by many. Nye describes that a bullet can not exist on its own‚ but rather exists to kill people‚ challenging the belief that the bullet is harmless. Nye compares the bullet to a shy cat

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    poem shows a tragedy of a single life‚ as contrasted to dehumanizing in the media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict: “the men who editorialized blood till it was pale and not worth spilling”‚ as well as to careless soldiers “flipping ID cards” (Nye 23). Although the main subject of the poem is the life of a human being and the consequences of war‚ in order to properly analyze the poem‚ we need to examine the political context. “Her Way” addresses the subject of Israeli-Palestinian conflict‚ as

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    In “The Rider‚” author Naomi Shihab Nye uses figurative language to allow readers to easily and concretely envision the both feelings of loneliness and of contentment. In the poem‚ a boy has told the narrator that the reason he roller-skates so fast is because he is trying to escape from his sense of loneliness. This is what the speaker is thinking about as they bicycle down the street‚ and it is also what they are wishing for: A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street

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