Blog 5

In my opinion, Nye write poem 19 Varieties of Gazelle as a response to 911 is because at that time people in Americans have discriminate on people from middle east; They think that people from there are always terrorists, so it is really a hard time for people from middle east who live in America. Therefore writer want to use poems to tell the people in America that people from middle east are kind and peaceful; They like fig trees, believe in God Alah who don't allowed killing and make people be nice to each other. Not all of them are terrorists and extremists. Also writer use examples on herselves and her family members to show the Arab culture to readers which shows that Arab people are kind and love nature. For example from " My father and the fig tree" writer's father said that the figs are the gifts from Alah. From this line we know that Arab culture is like other culture all around world. They have their belif and their favourite things, but not a place which is full of terrorists. Also writer's father told writer many stories about Arab culture, such as "a true Arab know how to catch a fly in his hands." and the story about Joha. As you can see, writer use these examples to show reader about that Arab culture is peaceful, but not dangerous to people. She want people in other countries know more about their culture, and she wants other people to judge them based on truth but not the stereotype and the negative information on TV and Movies which gives people an idea that people from middle east are all terrorists. What writer want to show readers are simillar to another book "Persepolics" in that book the writer also use a true story on herselves to show people around world about the truth happened in her country. She want to show that most of people in her country is kind and peaceful which is simillar to which Nye want to show reader.
As you can see, Nye use poem to show people that most of people in middle east are kind and peaceful, and she want people all around world to get rid of the prejudice and stereotype on middle east people. She gives a chance to let people all around world know more about culture and truth about people in middle east through her poems.