PD:6 Adams, Emma Found Poem

Rain

By: Emma Adams

Out the door

leaving home

raining not anymore

Sky outside overcast

she spun around

worries

Raining pretty soon

just in case

better safe than sorry

Walked out the door

red umbrella

protect us from the rain.

Found poem inspired by Christina Gonzalez's The Red Umbrella (pages 28 and 29)

       This scene in the book became my Found Poem because it was the first time that the red umbrella was introduced to the story. The red umbrella obviously has meaning to the story, that is why the book is named The Red Umbrella. This poem communicates an important lesson about empathy by substituting things like the rain and replacing it with something to symbolize something else. In this poem, the rain symbolizes the revolution and Castro, and Americans have empathy for the many anti-revolutionaries trying to escape Cuba. The red umbrella symbolizes the U.S. taking the Cubans in and trying to protect them from the revolution and Castro. The poem shows that so many Cubans believed in the revolution until they saw what the outcome was. When the poem says "… not raining anymore…" it means that they thought Castro was making a better Cuba for them. The part that goes "… she spun around, worries…" is supposed to mean that the Cubans are realizing what Castro is really doing. Then, the U.S. shows empathy and remembers the times that they themselves were in crisis. The U.S. welcomes the Cuban refugees in the line "red umbrella, protect us from the rain." The poem shows tolerance because the U.S. showed tolerance for the Cuban refugees coming to their country. "Rain" is meant to show how the U.S. showed empathy and tolerance to the Cubans fleeing to our country.