ipl-logo

Analysis Of Gate A-4 By Naomi Shihab Nye

263 Words2 Pages

After reading “Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye I believe that the meaning of this passage is shown in the line “ This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.” It shows that the author wants a helping community where food and cultural/tradition is shared. When this elderly women starts to cry in the middle of the airport because she had an important medical treatment, she thought that their flight was canceled, but she understood wrong their airplane was delayed. This women drops to the floor crying, the author explains that she stepped in to help and communicates to her in Aribic, her language so she would understand. The author that day makes a new friend and feels closer to her and the people the lady was giving the cookies, meaning

Show More
Related

  • Transitions In The Simple Gift By Steven Herrick

    836 Words  | 4 Pages

    It shows her transition into happiness and recognising the blessings in her life. This book is cyclic; it begins and finishes with the girl in her bedroom with a negative view on how the day begins and ends. But then there is a tonal shift on page 23 when she says, “But suddenly there it is right in front of you bright and vivid quietly waiting”. The use of symbolism is used through a bright red leaf. The leaf is a constant motif throughout the book representing her blessings and the good things in her life, but she hadn’t taken the time to notice it.

    Read More

  • Oranges By Gary Soto Essay

    1310 Words  | 6 Pages

    The young boy wanted to give the lady an orange in trade for the chocolate, which shows another representation of how the oranges are shown as a symbol of love. In the last stanza, the girl eats the chocolate while he peels his orange. The poet

    Read More

  • Late Night Chitlins With Momma Analysis

    771 Words  | 4 Pages

    Audrey Petty uses “Late Night Chitlins with Momma” to express her own close bond with her mother and how it shaped her identity; this is expressed through the narrative style, the diction and syntax, the use of food as a metaphor, and the short story’s structure. Narratively this piece does an incredible job of making the reader feel personally invested in the story. The way Audrey Petty does this is through a multitude of techniques. The point of view is a first person omnipotent, allowing for a closer read to the narrator themselves; the narrative flow is akin to being told the story verbally instead of the traditional 3rd person omnipotence.

    Read More

  • The Changeling By Judith Ortiz Cofer Summary

    794 Words  | 4 Pages

    By removing her costume the narrator feels that she has returned to her role of being ignored by her father. As herself, she does not feel as though she has a presence. The closing line of the poem perhaps provides the most poignant moment where the narrator returns to the “real world of the kitchen” which she acknowledges her attempts at adventure are all for naught (29). There’s a sense of dissatisfaction with her situation and a sadness of becoming just another worker in the

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Gate A-4 By Naomi Shihab Nye

    1002 Words  | 5 Pages

    Theme Essay Getting cared for may be the best thing that you could wish off. But caring for each other can also bring happiness. Through time and difficulties you face, it can create or enforce your relationships. In the story “Gate A-4”, Naomi Shihab Nye was wandering through the airport terminal after she got informed that her flight had been delayed, until she hears an announcement saying, "anyone in the vicinity of gate A-4 that understands Arabic, please go to the gate. " The theme starts to develop as Naomi decides to help the Palestinian lady in her own time, throughout the time they spend together, they start to create a relationship.

    Read More

  • Rhetorical Analysis Essay On Compassion

    662 Words  | 3 Pages

    When she was at the shop, a man walks in wearing a “stained blanket pulled up to his chin” who smells of “stale cigarettes and urine” (7). This graphic description of the man instills a feeling of disgust in the audience. He stands there until a “moody French woman” walks towards him and handing him “steaming coffee in a Styrofoam cup, and a small paper bag” of what is perhaps a croissant. He accepts the food and leaves the bread shop. Just like she did in the preceding anecdotal narrative she question why the woman demonstrated this act of compassion.

    Read More

  • My Father's Lunch Poem

    813 Words  | 4 Pages

    Author Erica Funkhouser’s speaker, the child of the farm laborer, sets the tone in “My Father’s Lunch,” through their narrative recount of the lunch traditions set by their father preceding the end of a hard days worth of work. The lunch hour was a reward that the children anticipated; “for now he was ours” (14). The children are pleased by the felicity of the lunch, describing the “old meal / with the patina of a dream” (38-39) and describing their sensibilities as “provisional peace” (45). Overall, the tone of the poem is one of a positive element, reinforced by gratitude.

    Read More

  • Change In Esperanza's The House On Mango Street

    1095 Words  | 5 Pages

    It states, “I got up to join Lucy and Rachel who were already outside waiting by the door, wondering what I was doing talking to three old ladies who smelled like cinnamon. I didn't understand everything they had told me. I turned around. They smiled and waved in their smoky way. Then I didn't see them.

    Read More

  • Grief And Isolation In Steven Herrick's The Simple Gift

    691 Words  | 3 Pages

    Composers utilise language to explore significant ideas. Steven Herrick’s prose novel, The Simple Gift is a valuable novel that showcases the development of belonging from the perspectives of three characters, Billy, Caitlin, and Old Bill. Herrick uses these multiple perspectives to further explain the damaging effects of grief, trauma, and isolation through Billy and Old Bill. In addition to the importance of valuing others communicated by Herrick with the characters Caitlin and Old Bill. The Simple Gift leaves the readers questioning the impacts of grief and trauma, as well as the importance of valuing others in life.

    Read More

  • The Fury Of Overshoes Analysis

    878 Words  | 4 Pages

    The poem seems to be from the point of view of an adult, who reflects on her childhood memories. The theme is the difficulties during the growing up period, and the wish to be one of the ' 'big people ' '. The beginning of the poem describes the setting, which is a place outside a kindergarten since the author uses the word ' 'the ' ', it can be argued that she refers to her own kindergarten. This description seems to remind the reader of his own childhood memories.

    Read More

  • The Industrial Revolution In A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

    1647 Words  | 7 Pages

    Then he realizes that he was not going to stay with his money when he die. At the end, he helped his employee with a monetary situation. Further, he went to his nephew’s Christmas dinner. Significantly, this novel helps people retrain the meaning of being humble and kind with others. Something that is very important about this novel is that it teaches a lesson of helping others, because you are not going to stay with your money when you die.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Fury Of Overshoes

    1433 Words  | 6 Pages

    The poem seems to be from the point of view of an adult, who reflects on her childhood memories. The theme is the difficulties during the growing up period, and the wish to be one of the ''big people''. The beginning of the poem describes the setting, which is a place outside a kindergarten since the author uses the word ''the'', it can be argued that she refers to her own kindergarten. This description seems to remind the reader of his own childhood memories.

    Read More

  • The True Confession Of Charlotte Doyle Essay

    771 Words  | 4 Pages

    In conclusion, the author of this story has shown that the theme of this novel is to know people before you trust them, for not everyone can be

    Read More

  • The Importance Of Communication In The Joy Luck Club

    1225 Words  | 5 Pages

    Cultural barriers prevent communication between people from all around the world, especially between the mothers and the daughters, and not necessarily figuratively. The language barrier between the mothers and the daughters can be symbolic. The lack of understanding and comprehension for one another creates a language barrier between the mothers and the daughters. “These kinds of explanations made me feel my mother and I spoke two different languages, which we did. I talked to her in English, she answered back in Chinese.”

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: The Joy Of Helping Other People

    705 Words  | 3 Pages

    It might be a little luck or someone doing something for you. So no matter what you will now lose anything from helping someone who is in need. You gain a lot when you help someone in need for example you earn their respect forever they will always be grateful for what you did. In the past three paragraphs you may have been thinking why is this important the writer is just rambling on about helping others but, this is important because it helped me become the nice caring person I am today. I will continue to do this throughout my entire life so I can continue to help

    Read More

More about Analysis Of Gate A-4 By Naomi Shihab Nye

Open Document