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The way that the poem is formatted makes it feel less like a poem and more a story that gives a better flow and understanding of the message.

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The line “ I went there” infers that they were able to do their best to help someone.

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Based off the situation I don’t think I would’ve been much help due to the language but I would do my best to contain the situation

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The author uses women though the poem to portray the shared admiration they have for women

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“Talk to her what’s her problem? We told her the flight was going to be late…”

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“She had a stack of homemade mamool cookies—little powdered sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts—…”

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I think I would have thought about not help but I do think in the end I would have even if I felt like not doing it because it’s just the right thing to do.

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I couldn’t help her much with the language barrier. However, I definitely can help with the best I can to calm and smooth the situation.

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I might help but the chance are low because when Im at the airport Im trying to avoid anything that happens. However google translate would help the lady

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I would be nervous but I don’t think I would hesitate if I knew the language. I have helped someone translate before using extremely broken/bad Spanish and google translate and if I was fluent I think it would have been a lot more comfortable for the both of us.

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The poem’s form is simple and straight to the point. This emphasizes that kindness doesn’t have to be a huge gesture and can be found in the smallest acts

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I would be willing to help but hesitant with making more of a connection since I fear that not everyone would want to make attempts to connect with strangers.

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I would’ve gone to help because what if no one else does

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Having no knowledge of Arabic I couldn’t do much verbally, but I might have tried to use something like google translate but I don’t now how effective that would’ve been.

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If I was in the narrator’s position and knew another language, I would definitely want to help the women. But if I didn’t know the language, then I would do my best to find another way to help the women.

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I probably would’ve been nervous at first, but either have tried to translate what was going on by utilizing technology, and if that didn’t work I would’ve tried to find someone who spoke the same language as the elderly lady.

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It’s natural to feel hesitant about putting yourself into someone else’s shoes, and breaking the communication barrier would be intimidating, but I would do my best to help.

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I would try my best to help in any way possible and would look for other ways maybe even google translate as I don’t speak arabic

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If I were in the speakers position I would do my vary best to help the women out and if I am not successful I would ask for assistance from someone that might be able to help more.

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I would try to help the person.

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If I saw no one helping someone in need (like the flight agent), I would absolutely help do my best to resolve the situation

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I’d like to believe that I would have went to help however I could. I would also provide individual with how to get translation help when I leave.

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I would have wanted to help and the image of her distressed would have bothered me but I don’t have the resources to actually do much because I only speak English.

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If I were taking the plane alone, I would’ve gone and help out. If I were with my family, I would ask one of them to come with me to see what’s going on, if they still need help by the time we get there, then we would help them out.

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I would have done the same thing, and helped the person in need.

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I would help if the person is in need of immediate help, instead of scamming me.

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I think I would try my best to help, especially if it was at my gate because I don’t know where else I would go.

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I would probably done something similar and would have just sat and talked to the women about life and how she is feeling.

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I would have probably be concerned for the woman, but I wouldn’t be able to translate anything because I can’t understand or speak Arabic.

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If I was in the narrator’s situation, I would’ve gone to go help whoever was in need of translation. I don’t think I would’ve been like the narrator, sticking around, making various calls for her, and conversing.

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I would’ve been nervous due to high tensions that are commonly at airports. However, I would’ve helped the woman in disparity

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I would have gone help since I fit in the requirement for the language speaking

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Realistically I would not have gone right away, but I think if I saw the exact situation that the author saw I would have helped out.

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I think I would go and help. I’m not sure if I would go into all the adventures the narrator went through but I’m sure I would help in any way I could.

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In the speakers position i would have done the same. if there was a translation problem at the gate i was already on my way to i would’ve helped.

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I would have probably just helped her like the speaker did, but not become friends with them by the end.

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I would try my best to help, but I likely wouldn’t get far as I don’t speak any Arabic.

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I would have gone to help if it didn’t mean I was going to be late, but I wouldn’t have put them on the phone with my dad to talk, or with other people I knew who spoke the language.

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I don’t know that I would jump in immediately but, maybe after I got my confidence up, I would go up and try to help in any way shape or form.

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The poem was structure with brief and short sentences so it distinguish from a short story. It demonstrates narrator’s confidence and assertiveness.

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The poems form is structured with engaging syntax, and a story-like anecdote. She utilizes rhetorical devices such as imagery, and diction, that helps the author convey her message of unity and kindness.

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The short story format helps illustrate the poem as an everyday scenario that could happen to any of us, and the ability for it to share its messages and optimism are more digestible that way.

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The use of short sentences in a poem hints accentuates the narrators disbelief at the events that occurred in the poem.

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I would be hesitant at first, but if I were able to help then I would try my best

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The way the poem is formatted it feels less like a poem and more like a short story.

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The poems form allows the reader to understand the poem as a short story where we are able to directly understand the narrators actions chronologically. The short sentences and punctuation also allows the story to have a certain pacing.

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The poem’s form splits the narrator’s experience into short recollections of her experience making the poem seem more realistic.

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The poem’s form splits the narrator’s experience into short recollections of her experience making the poem seem more realistic.

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The poems chronological order and imagery gives readers the opportunity to realize what was actually going on throughout this “tragedy” and how even though something bad was going on, it showed how people still come together and push through it.

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The poem emphasizes the act of kindness as being simple, showing that anyone can be kind.

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The poem form breaks up different events into their own stanzas in chronological order. And it makes it easy see what happens due to the speakers choices.

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It serves as a function because the story goes in chronological order of the events which they happened

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This line shows that she took the initiative to help that the older woman. She had the choice of just not helping at all but she still did.

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The poems form serves as a function in a short story line way which makes it easier for readers to understand and analyze the true meaning of the poem.

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The form of the poem guides the reader through The events in such a way that we are personified in the situation. The relatively simple language and non rhythmic prose of the poem feels very intentional to create a feeling of realism.

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as the poem is shorter than a passage it still brought a large message of the importance of the unification of others regardless of background

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The poems form serves a function of confidence, or gained confidence with the use of brief sentences. Emotion is also showed with the use of periods and em dashes.

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The poem being easily decipherable and straight forward almost like a short story shows that there can be simplicity in conflicting times. Just like how the characters in the story were able to create a simple environment full of connection and belonging and it seemed just that simple

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The punctuation invites the reader into the narrators world, giving them the same sense of camaraderie she felt at the airport.

Aidan Furmanski

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The poem shows the sequence of events from disparity to the sense of community .

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The poem form serves the function of telling a short story. This poems form was not in a traditional form by reason.

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The poem’s form serve in a chronological order, demonstrating the direct flow of each actions linking to another.

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The form of the poem, with lots of punctuation, makes it feel like a story, which is reinforced by the events happening chronologically as we read.

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The story being in poem form shows how one act of kindness can create show much good, even if it’s little.

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The poem has more of an anecdotal form, which feels similar to the way someone you know may verbally tell you a story. That makes it feel much more real and personal to the reader.

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I think the poem’s form serves a function because we can see the character within the narrator of the poem. The short, slightly choppy, and confident sentences assert the fact that she is trying to recall the situation. I also think it serves a form of community and the kindness that shows within it.

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The poem goes in chronological order but has moments where the tone switches between slow moment and fast moments.

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The poem is structured more like a story with its form and punctuations. It serves a function of creating a sense of community and close connection.

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The form feels almost like a short story, with the events happening in chronological order and in small paragraph like stanzas. Giving it more information to make an emotional impact.

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The poems form both demonstrates that the author is confident in herself with affirmative stanzas and also the awe she has at the interaction she had with the old woman and the other women at the gate with the open and sometimes playful language.

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The poem’s form serves as a function, because it’s a cluster of actions separated. It shows what the narrator has done and what she is thinking in the moment.

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It reveals how desperate the situation was. By “I went there”, it builds onto the initiative of the story. Because ”she went there”, she became a part of the kindness of the world.

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Formatting the poem as a short story made it easier to comprehend for readers, and instilled a realistic view on the author’s optimism. It sounds like it could be a daily occurrence due to the simplicity of the kindness shown.

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I think this line is telling us that she went the extra mile to help someone out.

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The form and punctuation aid it in reading like a short story. Especially the dashes make it read like a story you could be telling someone out loud which contributes to a familiar feel that is seen in the community within the story.

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By “I went there.” The author means that she’s been in the situation before. She was there, and she felt her.

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She went there not because it’s her gate. She went there because somebody at her gate that shared the same language that needs help .

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The poem takes a chronological form where we can see distinct consequences for the narrators actions in this poem.

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I believe the sentence is saying narratively that she was once a person that needed help there, and now wanted to help others.

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The author highlighted how she fought through her gut instinct to remain in her own world and ignore the flight agents request, but instead, enter another persons world out of empathy and consideration.

Aidan Furmanski

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This line is conveying that she was actually present in the airport, but more so that she was living in the moment and went the distance to help the people around her.

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The figurative meaning of “I went there.” illustrates the narrators apprehension to go to her destination but her commitment to go anyway.

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She went there to see what was going on but I don’t think she went with an intention to help

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I think the quote “gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there” illustrates how she didn’t have the intention to help initially, but after seeing the woman she felt the need to help.

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The line is showing how she was prepared to face some social stress by helping the women.

-Eva

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It shows her willingness to help, because she had mentioned in the previous stanza that she was simply wandering around the airport aimlessly until the announcement.

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All the characters in the story are female and throughout the story the author suggests that they developed their stronger connection partly because they were all female.

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she still took the initiative to help regardless of what problem it was since she didn’t know when she went

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I think it to portray that the author wouldn’t have necessarily rushed over to help if it hadn’t been at her gate.

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This line represents how the narrator made the decision to not only go because it was her gate and she needed to be there, but with the intentions of helping, not knowing the situation.

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She was needed at the gate in a literal sense because her flight was departing from A-4. figuratively she was called by her desire to help with the unknown situation where they need an Arabic speaker. At this time Arabic speakers were heavily scrutinized and mistreated in the United States.

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I think it’s possible that the “I went there,” that was after the little sentence, “Gate A4 was my own gate,” might show that it was out of convenience. I don’t think that she was expecting to help someone but rather she went because she could’ve thought, it’s her own gate, why not?

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The author use gender woman to emphasize the loves that woman shared together

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The line implies that she is going with purpose I think

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Though the narrator was technically at the gate itself, she debated if she wanted help or not. She decided to help.

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“i went there” creates the attitude of confidence. Before the line she states “well-one pauses these days.” as if she had been nervous then contoured confidence.

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I think the quote “I went there” shows how she might’ve not felt as inclined to go help translate if that wasn’t her gate that she was already going to.

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She took initiative to go there although being hesitant due to the high tensions at airports .

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The narrator is saying that because it was her own gate, and she was already going there, she might as well go to translate.

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Figuratively it means that she only went there to see what they needed to see if anyone was in need of her help. She has a sense of wanting to help out.

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All the character in this poem are women and I think this builds off of sisterhood and it shows the togetherness that these women have.