Reach Out and Touch - Maxine Tynes

1.<Tab/>Each woman on the bus reacts to the child's actions differently. The
narrator reacts by smiling at the children because she knows that this is neither the first nor the last time this will happen, while the mother of the children reacts by slapping their hands to make them stop touching the woman.
2.<Tab/>A theme statement expressing my interpretation of the main idea in this
poem would be: Children are those who don't understand the differences between people and in order to accept them, they not only have to see, but also "to reach out and touch". An…