Rebera Foston

A shocking 90% of people who live in the Bronx are not ready to go to college. Much of which is due to lack of attending to school and lack of money. Rebera Foston is a humanitarian who grew up in a ghetto who now gives back to troubled teen. Written by Rebera Foston, You Don't Live on My Street, is written about her childhood and what she had to deal with growing up in the ghetto. Foston’s use of metaphor, imagery, and repetition conveys her message of the ghetto and the people inside it can be perceived differently than they really are.
To start, Foston uses metaphors to convey her idea that you don't know someone just by looking at them. In line 69-70 Foston says, “Until you have seen life through my eyes./ Until you have worn my dress size...” She means that one really can’t know how she lives and the conditions she lives with until have really seen things from the perspective of her. When she says “worn my dress size”, she is implying that unless they

In one stanza, she says that, “Until you have walked in my shoes for a while/ And had a taste of my lifestyle.” Foston repeat the phrase “Until you have…” to emphasize that unless one has been her they have no idea what she has to deal with or what her situation is like. Additionally, her repetition of, “You don't live on my street,” with a slight variation each time really highlights the fact that not many people really know what she is going through. Lastly, she questions if, “Well do you have rats running ‘cross your head/Every time you lay down in you broke down bed.” For the duration of the poem Foston asks many questions, such as this, to draw attention to what her life is like at her house and living in the ghetto. While Foston is asking rhetorical questions, the reader really only focuses on what she tells about her life. Foston’s use of repetition throughout the poem helps to emphasize the falsities in our view of the ghetto’s