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Jimmy Santiago Baca's Poem Who Understand Me But Me

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The poem I have chose is called “who understand me but me” the name author is Jimmy Santiago Baca. To me this seems like some that was in jail and got out. I also this this story can be about a man that just go locked up and he is reminding him of what is it is like on the outside. I also think that can be about a man who is in jail and feel like he has know one to talk you. It can be one of those there idea’s. The story in my opinion it a man who just got out of jail and has not one to talk too. I think that the speaker is very lonely in the beginning but and the end he get happer. I also think that the speaker of the story is in jail and has no one to talk to as well. The speaker say in his own words is “they separate me from my from my …show more content…

I think that the place this story happen is in jail. I do not know the time of this story happen and, the rise of this story is when he says how they built the walls higher. The rise of the story can be when he said that paint the windows black. The audience of the story is any who is in jail or feel like they have no one to talk to. The audience be any that reads the poem. The poem audience are probably someone in jail or feel like nobody love them and or they have no one to talk to. “They separate me from my brothers /so i live without brothers The purpose of the poem is to tell people that life in jail is hard and it can feel like you have no one to talk too. The purpose can also be that when life get you down there are worse places to be. “They Have nd am not the same man’’. This shows the purpose because it pure that some place can change the man you are. The subject of the story is like the main idea of the story. I believe the subject of the story is someone in jail who is lonely and has no one to talk to. I know this because in the story it say, “they take my heart and rip it open I live without a

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