Each world When there are many worlds you can choose the oneyou walk into each day.You can imagine yourself brilliant as your sister, slower moving, quiet and thoughtful as your older brotheror filled up with the hiccupping joy and laughter or the baby in the family. You can imagine yourself a mother now, climbing onto a bus a nightfall, turning to wave goodbye to your children, watching the world of South Carolina disappear behind you. When there are many worlds, love can wrap itself around you, say, Don't cry. Say, You are a good as anyone.Say, Keep remembering me. And you know, even as theworld explodes around you- that you are loved...Each day a new world opens itself up to you. And all the worlds you are Ohio and Greenville Woodson and Irby Gunnar's child and Jack's daughterJehovah's Witness and non believer listener and writer Jackie and Jacqueline
Jehovah's Witness and non believerlistener and writerJackie and Jacquelinegather into one world called You where You decide what each worldand each story and each ending will finally be.
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I chose this poem because it talks about how she is made to be her. Many things can make up a person and Jacqueline has a lot. In the poem it says " Don't cry. You are as good as anyone." That sticks out to me showing that she is not going to let anyone bring her down. In the time period of this book segregation was a thing and it was bad. Thinking african americans can only do some things while white people can only do other things. Jacqueline's grandparents still went to the back of the bus because that is what they knew to do. In the poem it tells you all the things that Jacqueline is. Jacqueline has been to many places and that all makes up for her and that she has a part in all of those things. When Jacqueline writes she has a say in what the story will be about and even the ending. Everyone needs to know that they have a part in the world and everyone matters.