Everyone has a passion. Weather you'd rather keep it to your selves or shout it from the roof tops, you can't deny your self of what you love. In Naomi's fathers eyes, passion is where you come from and who you are. Through out the poem "My Father and the Fig Tree", her father speaks about his home land with the utmost respect and interest. He is so passionate about it that he wants his daughter to become just as excited as he is.
In the poem, You could tell by her smirks and monotone writing that Naomi could care less about the fig tree. However, she wouldn't have wirtten so vividly about how excited her father was about it if she didn't know there was some sort of meaning attatched to the fig. She describes her father as almost crazy that he would get so uplifted at the thought of a fig. Everyone has had a memory that is associated with something tangible. Weather its a sea shell at the beach that reminds you of your summer vacation with your family or an apple tree that was in your old back yard. When you see another apple tree, the first thing that comes to mind is your old house and all the memories that were made there.
People make connections to the funniest things. It's crazy to think that someone would get so excited about something so ordinary, but you've got to admit....everyone has a connection with their own silly fig tree.
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