PERIOD 3: "Gate A-4" by Naomi Shihab Nye by

2024-09-10 17:58:32 UTC

“Always carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere”

2024-09-10 17:58:36 UTC

To my amazement, not a single woman declined one.

2024-09-10 17:58:52 UTC

My favorite line in the entire poem was really the ending: “This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.”

2024-09-10 17:59:07 UTC

“Not everything is lost.”

Catie Yarter

2024-09-10 17:59:07 UTC

“Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian poets I know and let them chat with her?”

Maya Siegel

2024-09-10 17:59:09 UTC

We are all covered with the same powdered sugar. And smiling. The is no better cookie.

2024-09-10 17:59:10 UTC

“This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.” (22)

2024-09-10 17:59:15 UTC

“This is the world I want to live in…Not everything is lost.”

Thomas Plotkin

Hannah Flores

2024-09-10 17:59:17 UTC

“This is the world I want to live in. The shared world”

Aimee Y

2024-09-10 17:59:17 UTC

“I wanted to hug all those other women, too. This can happen anywhere. Not everything is lost”

2024-09-10 17:59:18 UTC

“This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.”

Sebastian M

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-10 17:59:20 UTC

This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.

2024-09-10 17:59:29 UTC

There is no better cookie

2024-09-10 17:59:34 UTC

“Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and found out of course they had ten shared friends.”

Stanza 5, Line 4

Aidan Furmanski

2024-09-10 17:59:34 UTC

“Not a single person in that gate—once the crying of confusion stopped —seemed apprehensive about any other person”

Anisa

2024-09-10 17:59:39 UTC

“The traveler from Argentina, the mom from California, the lovely woman from Laredo- we all were covered in the same powdered sugar.”-Avan

Apollo

2024-09-10 17:59:45 UTC

“This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.”

2024-09-10 17:59:49 UTC

“Talk to her. What is her problem?”

2024-09-10 17:59:51 UTC

“This all took up two hours”

James B

Shaw Siegel

2024-09-10 17:59:54 UTC

An older woman in full traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor waiting.

2024-09-10 17:59:55 UTC

“Not a single person in that gate - once the crying of confusion stopped - seemed apprehensive about any other person.”

What is her problem?

2024-09-10 17:59:57 UTC

2024-09-10 17:59:59 UTC

“The traveler from Argentina, the mom from California, the lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered in the same powdered sugar. And smiling. There is no better cookie.”

-Alejandro

2024-09-10 18:00:02 UTC

“And I looked around the gate of late and weary ones and I thought, this is the world I want to live in.”

2024-09-10 18:00:04 UTC

Not a single person in that gate- pince the crying of confusion stopped— seemed apprehensive about any other person

Carlos

Selina Fan

2024-09-10 18:00:05 UTC

My favorite line is: “Telling of her life, patting her knee, answering questions.”

Dellano (ella) Millar

2024-09-10 18:00:05 UTC

“Not a single person in that gate — once the crying of confusion stoppped — seemed apprehensive about any other person.”

2024-09-10 18:00:09 UTC

“She needed to be in El Paso for a major medical treatment the next day.”

Thomas Plotkin

2024-09-10 18:00:12 UTC

“Such an old country tradition. Always carry a plant. Always rooted to somewhere.”

2024-09-10 18:00:15 UTC

“Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian poets and let them chat with her?”

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:00:15 UTC

What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.

2024-09-10 18:00:15 UTC

“Well-one pauses these days”

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:00:18 UTC

“And I looked around the gate of the late and weary ones and I thought, This is the world I want to live in”(Nye)

2024-09-10 18:00:25 UTC

“Talk to her. What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.”

Levi

hlu2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:00:26 UTC

“ This is the world I want to live in. The shared world… I want to hug all those other women, too. This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.”

2024-09-10 18:00:27 UTC

an older woman in a full traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing

2024-09-10 18:00:30 UTC

"This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost."

Candice

2024-09-10 18:00:33 UTC

What is her problem? -Avan

“ ‘We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this. ‘ “

2024-09-10 18:00:37 UTC

Sebastian M

2024-09-10 18:00:38 UTC

“We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this “

2024-09-10 18:00:40 UTC

“We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.”

-Alejandro

2024-09-10 18:00:40 UTC

“‘Talk to her. What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.’”

Stanza 3, Line 3

-Aidan Furmanski

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:00:40 UTC

The traveler from Argentina, the mom from California, the lovely women from Laredo-we were all covered with the same powdered sugar.

-Eva

Shaw Siegel

2024-09-10 18:00:42 UTC

We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this

2024-09-10 18:00:44 UTC

“Talk to her. What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.”

2024-09-10 18:00:48 UTC

“Talk to her. What is her problem?”

2024-09-10 18:00:50 UTC

“The traveler from from Argentina, the mom from California, The lovely woman from Laredo— we were all covered in the same powdered sugar”

2024-09-10 18:00:51 UTC

Well—one pauses these days

2024-09-10 18:00:52 UTC

Talk to her. What is her problem?

2024-09-10 18:00:53 UTC

“Well- one pauses these days.”

2024-09-10 18:01:00 UTC

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world

2024-09-10 18:01:04 UTC

“An older woman…crumpled to the floor wailing.”

2024-09-10 18:01:07 UTC

“Talk to her. What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.”

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:01:11 UTC

“What is her problem?”(Nye)

2024-09-10 18:01:12 UTC

“I stooped to put my arm around the woman and spoke haltingly”

“Well — one pauses these days.”

2024-09-10 18:01:12 UTC

2024-09-10 18:01:22 UTC

“Talk to her. What is her problem?”

hlu2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:01:24 UTC

“Talk to her . What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this”

Selina Fan

2024-09-10 18:01:29 UTC

“Talk to her. What’s her problem?”

2024-09-10 18:01:35 UTC

“Well — one pauses these days.”

Apollo

2024-09-10 18:01:38 UTC

“We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.”

2024-09-10 18:01:41 UTC

“The traveler from Argentina, the mom from California, the lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered with the same powered sugar. And smiling. There was no better cookie.”

2024-09-10 18:01:59 UTC

“Talk to her. What is her problem?”

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:02:15 UTC

“Talk to her. What is her problem?”

-Eva

2024-09-10 18:02:21 UTC

Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor wailing

2024-09-10 18:02:22 UTC

“Talk to her. What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.”

2024-09-10 18:02:41 UTC

The emphasis on women being more accepting to strangers’ kindness. They felt more comfortable with other women, especially an older one

2024-09-10 18:02:52 UTC

For the most part, every single character in the poem was a woman. From the narrator, to the lady, to the girls handing out apple juice, and even the travelers who accepted the cookie, they were all women, which I thought was pretty powerful. It also strengthens the sense of community within the poem.

2024-09-10 18:02:53 UTC

“Talk to her. What is her problem? We told her flight was going to be late and she did this”

2024-09-10 18:02:58 UTC

The older woman is only giving cookies to the women, and women are the only ones in the shared world in the terminal described by the narrator.

2024-09-10 18:03:06 UTC

All the mamool cookies were given to other women. Women form all around the world.

2024-09-10 18:03:09 UTC

I feel that a man was not mentioned once in the story to further show the sense of unity that all the woman had at the gate.

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:03:12 UTC

I think it demonstrates the community and connection that women and girls can feel for each other, a togetherness that can span across both culture and even language.

2024-09-10 18:03:17 UTC

Everyone mentioned in the poem is a woman, signifying how the author views woman to easily connect and find friendship.

2024-09-10 18:03:19 UTC

Every character in the story is a woman, and all of these woman build a community and show kindness to each other.

The people that connect at the airport are all women, but the people she calls are mainly men.

2024-09-10 18:03:36 UTC

Sebastian M

2024-09-10 18:03:37 UTC

Gender plays a large role as all the women were kind to each other and created a sense of community. They were able to share the cookies and share empathy for one another as they were waiting for the delayed flight

2024-09-10 18:03:39 UTC

The poem does not mention men much at all and instead focuses on the kindness and collective understanding that the women at the gate showed one another

2024-09-10 18:03:39 UTC

Men aren’t really mentioned high shows a sense of camaraderie between the women.

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:03:41 UTC

There is a community of women, and despite barriers or age differences, the poem highlights their kindness the shared world the narrator wants to keep with them.

Selina Fan

2024-09-10 18:03:43 UTC

The female gender played an important role in the poem by representing a sense of connection and kindness toward others. This was shown in the text by act of of giving out/receiving cookies.

2024-09-10 18:03:53 UTC

This story focuses on women being accepting to others and willing to share. Also, the flight attendants could have felt bothered by the woman’s behaviors because of the stereotype of women being overly emotional.

2024-09-10 18:03:55 UTC

In the poem, it talks about how all the women connected with each other and made a little community. The poem states, “… and was offering them to all the women at the gate.”

2024-09-10 18:04:01 UTC

Gender in this case is something that also helped them connect. It helped Naomi connect to the older women, the older women connect to the other women when handing out cookies, and it helped the little girls connect to all when handing out juice.

Shaw Siegel

2024-09-10 18:04:01 UTC

It was only women that connected in person. However, over the phone, it was only men (the narrators dad, the old lady’s sons)

2024-09-10 18:04:01 UTC

It shows people being accepting and kind. The women in the airport accepted the cookies they were given.

2024-09-10 18:04:03 UTC

It feels there is a comradely among the women. This to me is seen in the line, “the mom from California, the lovely woman from Laredo”. The gender mentioned most throughout the poem is women, the narrator, the old woman, the two in the quote, and the girl passing out juice. The story has a hopeful tone about progress and is told through the lens of women, I think it’s commentary on women making change.

2024-09-10 18:04:03 UTC

The characters that the narrator introduces are mostly women, most likely emphasizing the role of women in society and how the author wishes that it was a shared world with more kindness and compassion towards women

2024-09-10 18:04:06 UTC

The poem goes out of its way to note that the cookies and apple juice were given out to women. There is no explicit mention of the mail gender in this poem

2024-09-10 18:04:13 UTC

How gender plays a role is all the women the narrator meets were kind and sharing with everyone, from the old lady giving cookies too the your girls handing apple juice.

2024-09-10 18:04:14 UTC

I think the role of gender played in the poem as a representation of kindness, soft and lovely feeling, because all the people that were pointed out by the author were women. Stereotypically, women are more related to those representations.

2024-09-10 18:04:17 UTC

“An older woman in full traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing.”

2024-09-10 18:04:20 UTC

No mention of a man heightens the commentary on camaraderie among women.

Aidan Furmanski

Dellano (Ella) Millar

2024-09-10 18:04:25 UTC

Throughout the poem, the only gender present was women. It shows the community that grows within the gender, no matter where you really are from, it’s a bond that they all share. This is portrayed heavily through all of the women sharing the cookies in joy.

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:04:26 UTC

Sisterhood is a persistent feeling throughout the poem, connecting to each other through shared feelings.

2024-09-10 18:04:44 UTC

The author mentions giving cookies to other women, and describes little girls serving apple juice, enforcing the unity that the women had with each other during this experience.

2024-09-10 18:04:59 UTC

The narrator’s point of view and theme comes from the empowerment of women. They helped and supported each other to live in a world where gender is not a prerequisite for kindness.

Selina

2024-09-10 18:05:24 UTC

By “I went there”, the author wants to express that she also faced the same situation regarding to cultural and language differences

2024-09-10 18:05:26 UTC

I think she means that people are on high alert at airports because of attacks on innocent people that have went on in the past. But she felt obligated because she fit the description

2024-09-10 18:05:27 UTC

She went there but with no intention to help at first. She goes initial just because it’s her gate.

2024-09-10 18:05:36 UTC

She felt more inclined to translate as she had fit the ‘requirements’ of being in Gate A4 and understanding some Arabic.

2024-09-10 18:05:59 UTC

It demonstrates her apprehension to approach and help the lady, but further conveys how confident and kind she is go forward and offer her service.

2024-09-10 18:06:05 UTC

This was someone of possibly her own ethnicity and in a sense her going there is to help someone, though they aren’t family, in a way that they can feel at home.

2024-09-10 18:06:06 UTC

When she goes to her own gate to help the woman, she is building the community that will soon exist there.

It means that the narrator took initiative to help someone, while maybe others would not and ignore the call for help.

2024-09-10 18:06:11 UTC

2024-09-10 18:06:12 UTC

This line foreshadows a sense of belonging that the poem instills. Narrator went tot a gate whre everyone felt connected and close just like the narrator wished to belong to

2024-09-10 18:06:17 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:06:17 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:06:22 UTC

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

Sebastian M

2024-09-10 18:06:26 UTC

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

Dellano (Ella) Millar

2024-09-10 18:06:34 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:06:34 UTC

“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.

2024-09-10 18:06:34 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:06:37 UTC

The line implies that she is going with purpose I think

hlu2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:06:38 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:06:54 UTC

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?

2024-09-10 18:06:58 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:06:59 UTC

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.

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:07:01 UTC

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

Shaw Siegel

2024-09-10 18:07:03 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:07:03 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:07:08 UTC

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.

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:07:12 UTC

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

-Eva

2024-09-10 18:07:18 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:07:21 UTC

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

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:07:31 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:07:33 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:07:35 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:07:44 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:07:46 UTC

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

hlu2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:07:55 UTC

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 .

2024-09-10 18:08:03 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:08:20 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:08:21 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:08:22 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:08:24 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:08:35 UTC

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.

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:08:38 UTC

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.

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:08:39 UTC

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.

Selina

2024-09-10 18:08:45 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:08:49 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:08:51 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:08:56 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:08:58 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:09:00 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:09:01 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:09:05 UTC

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

Sebastian M

2024-09-10 18:09:06 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:09:06 UTC

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

Aidan Furmanski

2024-09-10 18:09:09 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:09:13 UTC

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.

Shaw Siegel

2024-09-10 18:09:20 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:09:24 UTC

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.

Dellano (Ella) Millar

2024-09-10 18:09:27 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:09:31 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:09:33 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:09:41 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:09:43 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:09:46 UTC

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.

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

2024-09-10 18:09:51 UTC

2024-09-10 18:09:54 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:09:55 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:10:00 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:10:12 UTC

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

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:10:16 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:10:26 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:10:27 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:10:31 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:10:31 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:10:34 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:10:43 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:10:44 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:10:44 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:10:46 UTC

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.

Shaw Siegel

2024-09-10 18:10:56 UTC

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

Sebastian M

2024-09-10 18:10:57 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:11:03 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:11:05 UTC

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.

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:11:08 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:11:09 UTC

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.

Selina

2024-09-10 18:11:13 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:11:27 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:11:33 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:11:40 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:11:43 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:11:50 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:11:56 UTC

I would try to help the person.

Dellano (Ella) Millar

2024-09-10 18:12:15 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:12:18 UTC

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

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:12:28 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:12:33 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:12:36 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:12:37 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:12:40 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:13:23 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:15:15 UTC

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

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:15:43 UTC

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.

hlu2025_3 — 2024-09-10 18:15:47 UTC

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

2024-09-10 18:18:13 UTC

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.

2024-09-10 18:18:47 UTC

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.

2024-09-13 17:40:35 UTC

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

2024-09-13 17:53:01 UTC

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

2024-09-13 17:54:15 UTC

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

2024-09-13 18:00:15 UTC

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

2024-09-13 18:15:31 UTC

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

2024-09-13 18:17:02 UTC

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.