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In “Stain”, Naomi Shihab Nye uses simple and straightforward symbolism and a paradox to help the reader comprehend her home and the Middle East as a whole is not as bad as people think, in the wake of September 11, 2001. Naomi Shihab Nye enforces the use of symbolism in simple, everyday objects to assist the reader comprehend the difference in time before and after the events on september 11, 2001. She writes about a memory of her grandmother and how peaceful the time was,and then compares it to the effects 9/11 had on her home. “She stood outside by the lemon tree. Childern chattered around her there.” (Nye 10,11). She uses a lemon tree has her object which is a symbol of happiness optimism which her home was before 9/11. Her grandmother

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