ETH STD 101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Sandra Cisneros, Racialization, Jose Antonio Vargas
18 Nov 2020
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Poem speaks on the poet"s own sense of identity as a palestinian-american growing up in between the two cultures. What it means to be palestinian, and what it means to be. Trying to have people understand what it truly means to be an arab and not how the world and media have distorted it. Poem is a response to the attack on world trade towers. At the beginning, the speaker tells a few stories from her youth, where her father says what a true arab is. In second half of the poem, something happens that shocks nye and her family. Looks to her father for answers, but he doesn"t have any. She turns to the countryside of her american home and asks the sheep, cows and sky what she should think, do, and what kind of person she should become. Test group 4: womanhood and other failures by sj sindhu (pg. War plays a role in sinus reading.
