Johnson,” My So-Called Enemy by Lisa Gossels has two sides of people with different opinions. One is side is Jewish, and the other side is the Palestinians. The Palestinians want the Jewish people to get out of the middle east and away from Israel. The Jewish say that they will never leave. Both sides are bombing each other to defend their opinions. Two women, one that is Jewish, and one that is Palestinian, both talk about their opinions towards each other. The Jewish woman says, “After understanding the Holocaust, can you understand why it important for Jews to be in Israel (Gossels 13)?” The Palestinian girl answers her question by saying, “I can understand to come from Europe and to get kicked out of your houses, I think there is a lot of empty places in the world that you could live in (13).” Both sides talk about their opinions and how the world and the conflicts are affecting them but they cannot accept each other's opinions and they think they are right and they will not take anyone else’s opinion into consideration. This shows how the world is today. No matter what someone will say, there will always be a person trying to disagree with them. No one will take yes for an …show more content…
This poem is about a lonely father who cannot live the life he wants to live and he is forced to work the modern life instead of the life and culture of the Native American people. The daughter of the father tells how her father has a sad feeling to him. She states, “I remember the silence of his lost power, the red buffalo painted on his chest. Oh, I couldn’t see it but it was there…(Glancy 18-20).” Her father had no place to go as he was stuck in the old world where he wanted to be but in reality, the world around him was changing and no one accepted his way of life in the modern world. This poem shows that people like her father, have an opinion about how they should live their life but are pulled into the modern culture by other people's opinions and their ways of