Before I Was Gazen Analysis

Naomi Shihab Nye’s father is a Palestinian refugee and her mother is an American (Poetry Foundation). With this, she has learned about different cultures and has knowledge about them. Knowing about other places have helped prompt her writing. Nye tries to make people understand problems in other cultures, through her literary works, “To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri”, “Before I was Gazen”, and “Business”. Nye’s text, “To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri” impacted how people thought about issues and trying to bring people together to think about others, and other places. In this poem, it talks about how they used to think that life was fair. Now she's seen too much and doesn't know how to absorb what happened. A quote from this poem is, ”I’ve seen too much of the world and don’t know how to absorb this—a girl shot through a wall—U! U! U! I’d give you some of my years if I could—you should not have died that night—there was absolutely no reason for you to

For example, a young boy did his homework but, then he couldn't find it. Everyone and everything was gone, there was nothing, and now he wished he had a problem like misplacing his homework that was so easy to solve. A quote from this post is, ”Before everything got subtracted, in a minute, even my uncle, even my teacher, even the best math student and his baby sister who couldn’t talk yet. And now, he would do anything for a problem he could solve” “(Before I Was a Gazan”). The meaning of this quote is that before everything was back together, everyone and everything was gone, there was nothing. Now he wished he had a problem like misplacing his homework that was so easy to solve. It was written to show people that sometimes we get upset over little problems. People see that the problems are small once they have bigger problems. Sometimes we wish we