There, There Character Analysis Poems: Identity by Sneha Kondru https://padlet.com/skondru22/v1hrgvux5mv85eu4 Form a poem, perhaps emulating the one below, from the perspective of your character. Aim to embody their tone, diction, and perspective, while also authentically representing their narrative. en-us 2021-11-09 14:21:38 UTC 2021-11-09 14:45:29 UTC hello@padlet.com I Am Native American yzou22 https://padlet.com/skondru22/v1hrgvux5mv85eu4/wish/1878441664 I Am Native American
Learning to record before and after as those moments can sometimes be even better than when the interviewee knows they're being recorded

You can say being native is about knowing something Its about a culture and a history I was born to a world of drugs and alcoholism but I choose to keep the stories alive

With the wisdom that I've heard I've wanted to preserve the spirits around me not forcing other's stories and not staying limited to a single one]]> 2021-11-09 14:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/skondru22/v1hrgvux5mv85eu4/wish/1878441664 Keeping them from harm owerts22 https://padlet.com/skondru22/v1hrgvux5mv85eu4/wish/1878445818 10 days sober
After years of silence
Left burn holes in my life

Home is to drink
Home is a trap
Do not open the fridge

Slipping under
Opening my eyes
I came back up for air

I am grateful to be here
I am trying to make my way back
Home is my sister
Home is my grandsons
I want to come home
Can I stay?


]]> 2021-11-09 14:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/skondru22/v1hrgvux5mv85eu4/wish/1878445818 "It's not really a good story" mtran222 https://padlet.com/skondru22/v1hrgvux5mv85eu4/wish/1878448093 Invisible, powerless, nameless - degrading stereotypes.
He has a demeaning or contemptible picture of themselves. Suffering real distortion.
In a false, distorted, and reduced mode of being. 
A false "Indian" identity.
Never thought that you could just wake up to some terrible shit.
There was nothing to say - rode home in silence, the low sound of the engine and road lending us towards some shit we'd never make our way back from. 


Sometimes not having a story is the story. 


]]> 2021-11-09 14:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/skondru22/v1hrgvux5mv85eu4/wish/1878448093 I Don't Know What it Means kmccann221 https://padlet.com/skondru22/v1hrgvux5mv85eu4/wish/1878461303 I am Native American
Though I don't know exactly what that means
They say, "Learning about your heritage is a privilege,
A privilege we don't have."

"What does it mean to be a real Indian?"
None of the answers fit
Being Indian doesn't either.
I look at myself in the mirror
And I don't know what I'm looking for.

But when I see them dancing on the TV
I feel part of something bigger
I am Native American.]]> 2021-11-09 14:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/skondru22/v1hrgvux5mv85eu4/wish/1878461303