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Tell The World
Through poetry we tell the world who we are, where we're from, what we love, what we think, what we feel, and why we hope. The book Tell The World by Sherman Alexie is a stunning collection of poems by Teens. Their words represent the thoughts, hopes, and dreams of teens around the world. While reading these poems I have encountered many connections with the poets like dealing with what we love, where we are from what we feel. But overall who we are as a person. Still being only 13 years old I haven't found my own path in this world and hope to eventually find one in the future. This is a theme that I never wrote about in the past and didn't really pay attention too. But after going over it in my head I have come up with a theory. In the book one of the many themes is who you are as a person and I think the author included this message so teens can express their personality.
One reason why Sherman Alexie chose to include this theme so teens can express their personality and to separate themselves from other people. For example in the text it says "I am Hip Hop and Rand B. My mother is Old School. I am Rap. My grandmother is smooth Jazz." This proves that teens are expressing their personality because in this poem the poet is trying to tell the world that she is different from her parents and her grandmother and that she's her own person.
Another reason of why Sherman Alexie chose to have teens express their personality is also to express how they feel about who they are. for example in this poem it said "Half Palestinian, Half Jew what is this world coming too? How did this happen? How can I feel ." in this part of the poem it shows how she is obviously confused of who she is and doesn't know how to react because she doesn't know if she's Jewish or from Palestine. another example from another poem is "I'm like a modern day tea cake. my mom named me Michael Newby but I'm better known as prince Akzionz." From this the poet Michael doesn't really like his name and feels like prince Akizionz is what he truly is.
My Final reason why Sherman chose to have teens express their personality to is also to accept who they are as a person. for example in one poem it said "I am lightning, I crackle and I boom look at me, look at me I branch across the sky." in this part of the poem the poet is not only accepting himself but trying to get the world to accept him I think the lighting representing him being a reckless and every where he goes he messes up everything but he 's trying to say that just accept me for who I am. Another example of a poem that describes a poet accepting himself is "I can be American and not from America, but the fact that I'm hear it's who I am! America is and will always be my country." in this part of a different poem the author is trying to tell the world that even though I might not look American that's who I am. Also again the poet is asking the world to accept her as an American.
In Conclusion Poetry can tell lots of stories and can help with problems and expressing who you are as an individual. The book Tell The World has collections of poems from teens of who they are as a person, because at this stage of life many teens throughout the world are trying to find out who they are what they like and what they dislike. The author Sherman Alexie used this method so teens can express who they are and accept who they are and how they feel about who they are and also to use these poems to separate themselves and become their own person. After reading this book I have many solutions and wonders about my self and who I am now, who I was in the past, and what I dream of becoming in the future. Now let me ask you a question, who are you?
Jackson, you can't plagiarize *any* part of your blog post. Fix it, please.
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