The biography piece is called “All But My Life” and the author is Gerda Weissman Klein. The piece we are given is about a girl and her family when World War 2 started to happen and about how life just suddenly stopped and turned horrid with bombs‚ gunfire and explosions‚and how her father was stricken by an illness‚ while all this is happening. Her beloved town was once “gay” and “sparkling” ‚but it had turned frantic‚ her entire country was in fear and what was once beautiful was all gone‚ so
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This volume presents a collection of poems written by children‚ compiled over a twenty-five-year period. The author‚ Naomi Shihab Nye‚ collected the verses written by students in grades 1-12 while conducting a series of workshops with them. The book is divided into four topics: ‘The Self and the Inner World’‚ where the young poets write about topics such as growing up‚ their bodies‚ food‚ and reflect about people and events that define them; ‘Where We Live’‚ where students express their thoughts
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“Where Children Live” by Naomi Shihab Nye describes children as they grow and create their identity. Nye creates many pictures of places where children play. The pictures also portray images of activities children commonly do. The speaker is a grown person who has gone through the cycle of child to growing into identity. The speaker begins by mentioning home to be a “pleasant rumpledness‚” creating a tone of comfort and coziness (line 1)‚ which is the view most children have in their mind when they
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Sandoval 1 Kathleen Sandoval Mr. Royal AP Literature P4 04 March 2014 “Where Children Live”Analysis “Where Children Live” by Naomi Shihab Nye has become one of my favorite poems after reading it for this assignment. Many of the poems found in chapter 13 are focused on dark subjects like death or winter‚ which made this poem stand out even more. “Where Children Live” causes a feeling of nostalgia to the reader‚ because it depicts a home full of happiness and
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“Making a Fist” “Making a Fist” is lyric poem by: Naomi Shihab Nye‚ in her poem she describes the speaker as an adult woman. The woman is reflecting on her past memories of her experiences with her mother‚ as a young seven-year-old girl. The main characters are the speaker who is an adult woman reflecting on herself as the seven-year-old girl‚ asking her mother questions about dying. The character felt like she was going to die during a car trip traveling north of Tampico (a seaport in eastern
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Alderman describes the problem with great success that gets the reader’s attention. She introduces the problem by explaining common causes of obesity‚ which are addressed in Michelle Obama’s campaign recently. Referring to the nation’s first lady to address her issue‚ Alderman intensifies the problem so the reader can “see” it better. She then quotes the Center for Disease Control and Prevention statistic that “one of three children in this country is overweight or obese.” The author also uses statistics
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Analysis of "Making A Fist" Nye uses images to convey the message that one must confidently live life to the fullest. For instance‚ in lines 4-6‚ Nye writes‚ "I was seven‚ I lay in the car/ watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass." Nye uses these images to allow the reader to visualize the captivating imagery of "palm trees" that "swirl a sickening pattern past the glass." One imagines the speaker on a road trip in a "car" and shares the image of getting sick as she watches
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In the short story Thank you‚ M’am by Langston Hughes and Gate A-4 by Naomi Shihab Nye both have a common theme of helping anyone‚ even if they are different‚ to build up story and character. The story "Thank You‚ M’am” reveals the theme of helping anyone‚ even if they are different. In “Thank You‚ M’am” by Langstin Huges‚ Roger wanted blue suede shoes but he had to steal from a lady but when she caught him he became very nervous. So the lady decided to help Roger learn that stealing is bad and
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In the novel All But My Life‚ Gerda Weissmann faces many ways of oppression. In Bielitz‚ their town was invaded by the Germans‚ and that was when all of the heinous crimes against Jews were committed. Before they were deported to concentration camps‚ their rations were very‚ VERY strictly cut. They were given arm bands with a star of David‚ and those human beings with names and families were simply labeled JEW. They were forced to sell all of their precious belongings and move to the basement of
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate. Klein‚ N. (2002). Toronto‚ ON: Vintage. Through personal and deep rooted ideals‚ Naomi Klein provides a chronological account on two and a half years of various protests and speeches all over the world that revolve around the issue of globalization. "Fences and Windows" is a tightly bound compilation of newspaper articles and speeches packed together to encompass basic themes of a dwindling democracy caused by the "
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