I think that this book was chosen for that year for something like that because a lot of things were going on with other countries. Fighting with Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Invading Afghanistan and multiple other foreign problems. I think that they chose the book to show that the United States is not completely innocent either. Its showing that we weren't always the good guys, especially to our own people. In this time everyone viewed these other countries as the enemy but choosing this book is showing the readers that although our country claims to be so great to its people that these people were treated the way that they were.
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I personally love poetry. I think i have bought and read a total of 14 poetry books by various poets. I love the emotion that comes through in poetry, I don't think any other style of writing can move me the way that poetry does. Poetry has helped me so much through my hard times, the way you can interpret poetry in any way makes it easy to relate. Poetry has helped me find my words for how I feel. Whether its about love, happiness, loneliness or anything my books help me find the words for my feelings that I don't think can be described. Reading introduction to poetry today was interesting. I understand how the speaker would want people to look at the beauty and discover things about the poems for themselves because i do that all the time with my books. I hate the thought of chopping everything up, putting one meaning on everything because to many people the same poem could mean something so different to them. I think that poetry is so infrequently taught and read because people don't see the benefits behind it. Poetry has helped me through so much and helped me find my voice but I think some people don't think verses written on paper can have the power to do that.
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