2 Point Score: The qualities the poet gives to kindness are stingy and sparse. In lines 8 and 9 the poet expresses, “how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness”. This shows that kindness is not abundant and you may need to experience hardship to encounter it., The poet’s use of the words “tired” and “disapproving” in the last stanza are included to show how dissatisfied the speaker is with their daily human life. “I was tired of being a person. Even now his tail gestures to me across the disapproving lagoon.” This shows how the poet’s use of diction contributed to the dissatisfaction., The author’s language in paragraph 8 suggests that grandma was a dreamer before with a big imagination, just like any kid, but after time passed she stopped dreaming. “I thought of how many times as a girl I stared into that faraway moon and dreamed impossible dreams-” Grandma is thinking about her past and how she was when she was smaller., The author prompts the reader to be more thoughtful about the time in the day after work or school. By using the word “downshifting” the author creates a sense of slowing down and moving into a calmer or more thoughtful mode. This proves how the author created the idea that readers should slow down., The author’s language in paragraph 8 suggest that she misses the days whe she was a child. Being a child brought her so much joy when she would laugh so freely and think of bigger dreams. “I thought of the part of me that once created bigger worlds and I mourned.” is eveidence that misses the days she was young and full of life., 1 Point Score: It shows that Grandma was very emotional about what she wanted to do in life. Her mind had to be at peace when thinking about dreams she wanted., The poet’s use of the words “tired” and “disapproving” in the last stanza are included to show how dissatisfied the speaker is with their daily human life. “I was tired of being a person. Even now his tail gestures to me across the disapproving lagoon.”, The language in stanza three shows how kindness might not be experienced until someone has sorrow., in paragraph 8 line 53 she said she would wish the same things as her kids wish for when she was a child, The theme of the reading is that kindness will only show up after someone experiences loss or sorrow. I know this because of line 9, 0 Point Score: She is sad that she will be leaving soon but she knows that she will be leaving with good memories., I like to go to school but only when I get to sleep in class and play games., By using words in the poem the authors creates the theme for it., idk, “I was tired of being a person. Even now his tail gestures to me across the disapproving lagoon.”,

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