In class writing

1)  Review these lines:

Skin had hope, that's what skin does.

Heals over the scarred place, makes a road.

What do you think these two lines mean? Offer an interpretation and back it up using specific evidence in the poem.

People that are in different countries have different culture and different skin colors. For these two sentences, Nye is a half American half Palestinian; she might show the hope of the countries and different skin color. For example, she said, “Love means you breathe in two countries.” The long years brought her the touch and she felt the hope between the countries.

2) What could skin be a metaphor or symbol for?

The skin could be a symbol for the countries. The countries have different skin color, the Palestine were in middle east and could have skin of yellow and people in America were always white people. The Author Nye only mentioned “country” once in the whole poem. As a result, for other places, the “skin” was always referring to country. Skin helped her to discuss what skin meant in the poem.

3) Why do you think the poet is thankful for "travelers that people go places larger than themselves"? How can travel (physical or metaphorical) help heal the divisions between people, countries, or cultures?

In my perspective, Nye is thankful for the travelers that go to other places because those travelers can see the different and advantages of each culture in different places. The countries are always having divisions, so if there’s no traveling, then no one can see what truly happened in a culture. Nothing is totally right or wrong, anything that people do could have a reason. As a result, travel is the thing to help to see the divisions between cultures, countries or people, and is also the thing to spread the true culture to other places.