Reflect on a time when you noticed someone being treated unfairly or saw a situation that didn’t seem right. How does this experience connect to the emotions or ideas expressed in one or both poems?

 My mother had stopped going to school at 9 years old to help out my family. She started working and lived the life of a woman, not a child. Just like the poem shows children working at a young age filled with hope, my mother was and is the same. She believes that all her hard work will be worth it both in the future, and after life.

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