The document contains 6 scenes describing the relationship between a mother and her daughter Tonette. In scene 1, the mother physically beats Tonette as a form of discipline after Tonette receives poor grades on her report card. In scene 2, Tonette hesitates to show her mother her poor grades, knowing she will be scolded. In scene 3, Tonette shows her mother who responds with anger and slaps her. In scene 4, the mother drags Tonette away from the house by her hair. In scene 5, Tonette isolates herself and feels worthless. In scene 6, the passage argues that physical violence is not an effective form of discipline and encouragement is better for helping children improve.

1. SCENE 1: “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” It has been a
habitual action ofsome parents to hurt and beat theirchild as way of lettingthem learn
what the right things are. They thinkthat leavingbruises,scars and wounds on their
child’s bodies are the best ways to discipline and improvethem as a being.
SCENE2: One Morning,Tonette is hesitatingif she’ll showher grades to her mother.She
knows that her mother will definitelyscold her once she’ll know how low her grades are.
Tonette also thinks that she have no choice. Whether tomorrow,nextday orlater, she
should let her mother sign the report card.
SCENE 2: With full courage and without any hesitation,she gave and showed her
mother the report card.
SCENE 3: Instead of encouragingtonette to studyher lessons better so that she’ll
receive higher grades next quarter,she was shocked when she received a big slap from
her mother.
SCENE 4: Because of anger and disappointment,her mother threw the report card to
her and drags her away from the house by pullingher hair.
SCENE 5: After that incident,tonette became aloof.Instead ofsharingher problems to
her siblings and parents,she chose to hide at the corner of their house crying. She felt
that she is worthless because no one could appreciate her efforts.
SCENE 6: As a parent,we should always remember that violence isn’t the key for your
child to do better things.Beating,hitting,kicking or in short hurtingthem physically
won’t bridge your child in reachingtheir goals in life. The best thingto do is to talkto
them and most importantlyencourage them to get up wheneverthey’re down. Words
are more painful than actions,same as words are more powerful than actions.By simple
encouragement,assistance and support, they’ll knowthat someone understandsthem.
Don’t let your home be a fierce battlefield foryourchildren.Instead turn it as a place
resided by a familywith peace and harmony.

2. The Little Girl of Hiroshima
It is me who is knocking at your doors
The doors one by one
I can’t be seen by you
Since dead are unseen
It has been nearly ten years
Since I died
in Hirosima
I am a seven year old girl,
Dead children do not grow up
My hair caughtfire first ;
My eyesight got dim,
I became a handful of ash,
My ashes were thrown into the air.
I ask for nothing for
myself (From you)
Can not even eat candy.
The child who is burnt like paper
I knock at your door
Aunt, uncle give me a sign
Let the children not be killed
And could eat candies, too.
Nazım Hikmet Ran
Poem analysis written by students

3. This poem is about a girl who died in the Second World War, when a nuclear bomb was thrown through
Hiroshima and all the city was destroyed. This little girl speaks about her death; about how the fire caught her
and then she became ashes. She also says that she wasn’t able to eat any candy and that she will never be
able to eat them. In my opinion this poem wants you to think about how lucky you are and how cruel can be
the people to achieve their goal. I don’t like the poem because is too sad. It speaks about cruelty and about
how millions of children were killed in the Second World War. This poem takes me back to that time, and that
makes me feel bad.
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This turquoise poem created by Nazim Hikmet Ran speaks about the barbaric actions done in Hiroshima. The
writer has the objective of making known the sensations that and girl affected by the nuclear bomb felt. The
sensations that the girl had are unjustice and heartache mostly. The girl after the atomic bomb felt the same
sensations in her body, and he knows perfectly that she is going to die. Finally, this poem is well structured
and gives the situation that anyone that had to live this tragic situation could have. In addition, this poem has
a clear anti-war message.
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This poem is about a girl who died in Hirosima because of the atomic bomb that was thrown by American
army and describes her feelings after and before the bomb.This poem makes me feel so sad, because it
reminds me about the great number of innocent people that died at Hirosima, children, men, women, old
people, workers... only because a big country wanted to show its power. To sum up, I would like to emphasize
the difficulty that entails nowadays writing a poem like this.
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“The girl” by Nazim Hikmet Ran is a very sad poem which is about a girl who died because of the explosion of
Hirosima. The writer is a very famous writer in Turkey. We can see that the rhymes must be very good and
paragraphs are well-balanced.
I think that it is very important that the poem is written in first person, because like this the poem makes us
feel more sorry
than if it is written in third person. In my opinion the mode which the writer uses to describe her death is very
striking.
I also have to say that the poem reminds us of all the people who died in Hirosima, and I think that it is a good
way not to forget
them.
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This poem is about a girl who was killed in Hiroshima when she was seven years old at the end of the Second
World War. She was a young innocent girl that would like to be like a child who is alive and does things
children of her age like doing, like
eating candies. She had a terrible painful death and she hasn’t had time to enjoy herself. She died ten years
ago but her soul is still among us hoping to be an ordinary girl. She wants children not be killed and that every
children could do things which she could have done if she has not been killed.