... demonstrate the anguish she feels at dressing like a Pakistani person when she know she's not. The text shows us that despite the underlying problems the clothes caused, the writer still tried to wear them to try to bring herself some peace. She called them "alien" and talked of flames rising ... left her old country by saying "I could never be as lovely as those clothes." I think this shows that she feels guilty at abandoning her country when it was war torn, and that she perhaps feels that she doesn't deserve the clothes at all. She describes her birthplace as a "fractured land" and ta...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , wasn't having a good day. The other kids were at it again. The cool kids. They teased him because his jacket was torn on the sleeve, his shoes were old and dirty, or because he didn't have a backpack. They had nice clothes and backpacks, why shouldn't He? It wasn't his fault that his mother couldn't get a job, or his father was a drunk. Why ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School