"Kindness" is a poem that explains the real meaning of kindness. It shows you what kindness is like and how it can change someone. Also the poem reveals the light at the end of the tunnel; hope in life. The poem "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye speaks about how you experience kindness and what it really is. The main point in this poem is that in order to experience people's kindness you need to experience hurt, sorrow, and loneliness. The author says that when you lose everything and everyone it is in that moment when kindness comes along to lift you up "and then goes with you everywhere/ like a shadow or a friend" (33-34). When portraying this message the author uses a sad, but hopeful tone to send the message she wants to say. This tone
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Down in the village, where the people lived, they had nothing: no electricity, running water, filtered water, and barely any food. These people had aught but when we went down and were giving them water that went to their houses, their faces lighted up. They looked like the happiest people ever. It was at this moment that I was experiencing what life was like for these people and I understood the kindness that we were giving to them. It was something that I consider to be so little, but changed someone's life forever. The relationship of kindness and sorrow in my life is one of loosing something that makes me sad, but then realizing all that I have around me and being grateful. In my life, sometimes I lose the people that I love and it makes me very upset, but then I look around me and take in all of the nice things that someone does for me and I realize that I should be thankful for them not only when they are gone but when they are on earth. In my life there is kindness all around me all the time, but the only time that I tend to notice it is if I have experienced sorrow or hurt. This kindness after sorrow changes my life a little, but because I soon realize everything that I have and that my life is not as tough as I think it is and it makes me have a more optimistic view on life. Everything will get better eventually because someone, or something, will pick me up when I am down and alter my life for the better. Kindness is a great thing in life that can change someone's life and turn it all
Down in the village, where the people lived, they had nothing: no electricity, running water, filtered water, and barely any food. These people had aught but when we went down and were giving them water that went to their houses, their faces lighted up. They looked like the happiest people ever. It was at this moment that I was experiencing what life was like for these people and I understood the kindness that we were giving to them. It was something that I consider to be so little, but changed someone's life forever. The relationship of kindness and sorrow in my life is one of loosing something that makes me sad, but then realizing all that I have around me and being grateful. In my life, sometimes I lose the people that I love and it makes me very upset, but then I look around me and take in all of the nice things that someone does for me and I realize that I should be thankful for them not only when they are gone but when they are on earth. In my life there is kindness all around me all the time, but the only time that I tend to notice it is if I have experienced sorrow or hurt. This kindness after sorrow changes my life a little, but because I soon realize everything that I have and that my life is not as tough as I think it is and it makes me have a more optimistic view on life. Everything will get better eventually because someone, or something, will pick me up when I am down and alter my life for the better. Kindness is a great thing in life that can change someone's life and turn it all