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Puzzled

Tariff by Michelle Boisseau poem really caught my attention mainly because it had me confused all types of ways. By simply reading the title I thought I had an idea of what it was going to be about. After I actually read it I was puzzled. I had to actually read it various times in order to get an idea of what the poem is actually about. By reading the title "Tariff" I immediately thought of something political or financial like taxes.  Then from reading the poem, it really when to something completely different then I was expecting. What I got from the first time reading the poem was the authour mentioning about on old friendship that where she passed away twenty years ago and her having to do with her death. The first stanza was straight forward it was just mainly the second one that still has me questioning? It was time to look more in detail and braked down each line and then connect all my thoughts together. From jus...

Deja vu

After many years of going to school, I have been assigned different varieties of books like The Book Thief (novel), or 1984 (political fiction. I  never thought I would be assigned a graphic novel especially not in a college course. I have always loved reading comic books as a young girl. I remember that my favorite comic books in elementary were The Babysitters Club, but after being told various times that comic books weren't "real books" according to my fourth and fifth grade reading teachers. I surrounded graphic books with a sort of stereotype that all comic books are just for kids. The teachers were encouraging us to read chapter books. That eventually lead them to band us from checking out any graphic books at the school library. (https://www.bustle.com/articles/178530-on-the-baby-sitters-clubs-30th-anniversary-author-ann-m-martin-and-editor-david-levithan-reflect-on) I was not expecting to be encouraged to read a graphic n...