First Draft and Mini Outline - All Things Not Considered

Thesis: This poem explained about the cruelty and the death. How peace takes no place in today's life. War and oppression are everywhere. Religion takes a back seat and the air smells blood. Age is not at counts where children, women, man, all suffered terrified.



Notes:

• Why all things not considered? What was all that 'things' though?
• How much religion plays an important role?
• Children at no safe. No promises for tomorrow indeed.
• Does race really makes a difference? Were there any religion will be an exception?
• 'Holy' in repetition
• Some sentences in Italic
• Whose to be blamed?
• Strong hearted
• Are people the only holy land?

First Exploratory Draft:

All Things Not Considered written by Naomi Shilbab Nye (2002) explains about war and oppression. How war gives no discrimination towards the believers. Either he or she is a Muslim, Jewish or Christian, but it is not an exception. This can be supported with the evidence from the text where 'The Jewish killed in the cave were skipping school, having an adventure' and 'Mohammed Al-Durra huddled against his father in the street, terrified. The whole world saw him die'. The speaker titled 'All Things Not Considered', in my opinion, the 'things' that she meant was mostly about religion and faith. Religion is the power of one's life. No religion bring us to the negative and darkness. If we were have to believe in religion, we would consider everything decent before we did something. However in this poem, religion takes a back seat. Yet they are perhaps not atheist but they are not good believers though. Things go wrong. Shit happens. Provided that no one to be blamed, but should what had happened considered right to happen? Is there any promises that the world will provide us a better place? Or generations of black stay.