Why are our journeys sometimes marked with sadness

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Assignment:

Making a Fist BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

1. What two metaphors are presented In the first stanza? What is the situation in which they are used?

2. Why do you suppose that the mother answers the daughter regarding her question about death with "strange confidence" (Nye line 10)?

3. What are the "borders we must cross" (13) and why must they be done "separately'' (13)?

4. Why are our journeys sometimes marked with sadness?

5. What does making a fist symbolize, in respect to this poem, and what does it mean that the speaker, as an adult, is still making a fist?

6. What lesson did the speaker learn that day in the car? Why does she sometimes still feel like she is in the backseat?

7. What is this poem about? Journeys, death, motherhood, childhood, something else? Explain.

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