Learning Goal: I’m working on a literature writing question and need support to help me learn.
500 words – respond to the poem
The response should be focused on this paragraph
“Your problem is not your life as it is in America, not that your hands, as you tell me, are tied to do something. It is that you were born to an island of greed and grace where you have this sense of yourself as apart from others. It is not your right to feel powerless. Better people than you were powerless. You have not returned to your country, but to a life you never left.�