In “Gate A-4, Shihab Nye conveys the theme that every individual is connected to one or another someway, even though one might not know it at first, you have to let down your barriers to truly find connections. Every person has many talents, and certain things that make up who they are as a person. When the old woman in the gate shares her cookies with all the women, she unites everyone together. Nye writes, “She had pulled out a sack of homemade mamool cookies-little powdered sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts- out of her bag--and was offering them all to the women at the gate. To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. We were all covered by the same powdered sugar. And smiling ( Nye 163).” This shows that even though
