Abstract
The poem, 'From the Diary of an almost-four-year-old' was written by Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi, a Palestinian writer, in 1988. The speaker in this poem is an almost-four-year-old little girl who was fired at by a soldier, during the Israel-Palestine war. She lost an eye and she wonders about the cruelty of war. In this poem, we do not know about which war Hanan Mikhail Ashraw is talking but this is not really important. The poem was written in 1988, so it was certainly the Israel-Palestine war but it could also have been another war. The sad reality is that war touches everybody, and not only soldiers. Innocent people such as children, women and citizens are affected by war, and also people in other countries reading this poem, for example, or other true stories about war, just like this one.
