Meena Alexander
In an excerpt from her autobiography, Fault Lines, Meena Alexander shares withher readers her shaken identity from a first person point of view. With a dismal tone she uses figurative language, stream of consciousness, and rhetorical questions to bring the reader face to face with her reality as a “woman cracked between multiple migrations.” Meena feels that because she has lived in several different places throughout her life and lived several different lives, speaking several different languages that she has ultimately become “multiple being locked into the journeys of one body.” She briefly tal
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Approximate Word count = 410
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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