Voice 1: Karara
Both
Voice 2: Eric #
Maha, why don’t you treat me well?You aren’t a very good
Mother!
Can you please go away?
“From the day you came out as a girland not a boy, you have been a burden.”
(page 85) Just because I’m a girl, doesn’t
mean I’m worthless!
Why do you always think it’s me, just
because I’m a boy! April broke that plate!
“Karara, weave the wah-pu into baskets,crush up the ay-ah-e-yah一the men need
more for fishing tomorrow一and watch
your sister. I’m taking Luka to the forest.”
(page 38) Maha throws words and chores
and tasks galore at me, like I was a worthless slave.
“Get your dress shirt, your vest, your
dress pants, your church shoes, your
black pants, a belt.” I have to
get all that fancy clothes that I hate,
and Heather and April just slip on a
dress that they would wear every
second of their whole lives anyway.
Time is frozen for me, trapped ina huge loop of chores and tasks.
An endless pause that will never
stop until Luka passes his test.
I climb out of the back seat
to get out and my mom yells “Hey!!
Let your sisters out first!”, like the world
would implode if I didn’t
Why does it matter that I am a
girl?
boy?
That doesn’t mean I’m any less
important.
free.
Because you know what?
We deserve equality because we are humans all the same.
In writing the Two Voice Poem, I had to make a poem that compares my life to Karara's life (from Bringing the Boy Home. The learning targets I tried to aim for were:
- I can write a poem that compares two perspectives
- I can use specific and relevant evidence from the text in my writing
- I can use figurative language and descriptions in my writing to create vivid pictures in my readers mind
I think that I met the first learning target, because I think I explained the differences between myself and Karara decently.I don't think I got the 3rd reading target, because a) No one has read it yet so I can't know what picture it paints, and b) I am not so great at writing poems. Well, I was. I used to not be able to do figurative language so well. My similes and metaphors made no sense whatsoever. But, after making this poem, I improved a bit in writing poems.I partly achieved the third learning target because I only used one quote, and only explained what Karara's life is like, not why.
I have only made a few poems before this in 5th or 4th grade. I think That I might write some again on a day with no school, maybe a random day on vacation to show my parents/grandparents or something.
I think I did well on my use of figurative language in this poem. I think my best use of figurative language is "Time is frozen for me, trapped in a huge loop of chores and tasks. An endless pause that will never stop until Luka passes his test.", because that's three metaphors in 2 sentences, and they all make sense. I also think that I did good at comparing Karara and I. I used 2 quotes from the book, which made there be evidence, supporting my comparison.
