Sherman Alexie's Sonnet With Pride

In Sherman Alexie’s “Sonnet, with pride”, he explores the idea that war is very destructive and it negatively effects all that parties involved. It can affect someone directly or indirectly. The author use of figurative language by personifying a pride of lions shows how war can affect individuals. The inability to escape your reality when you are surrounded by danger, destruction and death is tragic. It is also tragic that all of this can be solved if the sides involved would be adults and come to an agreement that stops the endless destruction and hunger of the innocent citizen not involved.
When reading this poem I realize that it shows us the part of the world most of us don't know about or don't want to know about. This poem is relatable to different aspects of people’s life. Some of us have been through the Iraq war and have seen what has happened to those innocent kids, men and women. In the poem “Sonnet, with pride” by Sherman Alexie it is shown in third line "you are running for …show more content…
When we become adults and see what is going on we realized the world is not what it seems there is war everywhere in Iraq but we never had to deal with it because we are protected by our government. In the poem “Sonnet, with pride” by Sherman Alexie, in the fourth line he stated "Now imagine yourself as a lion that has never been on a hunt. That never walked outside of a cage. That has been coddled and fed all its life. And now your world is exploding all around you” In this line he is describing the experience of the bystanders to the acts of war. He describes the world of the individual’s and their now peaceful life that is interrupted by acts of violence and are no longer able to continue living in the way that they know. He also shows us how it would be for us if we were to ever be surrounded by