The Poed By John Nowlan

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Milestone 1: Literacy Analysis Paper Love means loving someone unconditionally. Loving them with flaws and all. Love is a part of being human. How can you love without accepting the society you live in? Nowlan’s poem “He sits down on the floor of a school for the retarded” uses a normal grown man to experience love and human nature teaching him that love is love regardless of a person mental state and that everyone is equal. Nolan presents the setting of the class to be full with kids, but the kids are grown. In the beginning, a grown man begins to feel uncomfortable around mentally challenged adults because he sees them as being different from others. The grown man actions are common because people in the world don 't consider mentally challenged people to be normal, but being normal or abnormal is a part of human nature. Human nature is emotions that are wildly apart of beings a human being. In the poem it states
…I don’t know what to do about the young woman (I call her a woman… but think of her as a little girl.”( lines 22-25) Nowlan was trying to get the readers to see how the grown man judges a woman because of her mental state. People always seem to judge a human because of their mental disability. Love comes in so many shapes and forms. Nowlan presents a good view of love being
Just 2 human beings existing in the same society. Nowlan demonstrates how everyone is different, but everyone is equal. Everyone wants to love and wants to be loved. “We are lovers.” The grown man was understanding acceptance. Love is love regardless if you’re different from one another. Referring back to love doesn’t have to be intimate, it’s just a feeling that everyone need from friends and family. Feeling some emotion is a part of being human. This is what makes human nature. The “fire” is what separate every human being, but it also connects

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