Analysis Of Hamadi By Naomi Shihab Nye

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In “Hamadi,” by Naomi Shihab Nye, Susan is a teenager and just like most teenagers she is inquisitive about most things, especially in the everyday aspects of life “Why this way? Why not another way? Who said so and why can’t I say something else?”. Her inquisitive nature created a desire to know people with odd backgrounds, such as refugees, old people and every human who is excluded from today’s normal traits “Anyone who watches TV more than twelve minutes a week is uninteresting”. Susan’s mind is usually out of the box thoughts shows another way to see how things are. And as a teenager from a mixed community has triggered her behavior in knowing the different backgrounds of people who surround her, thoughts that led her to think that ordinary