The tone in each of Suheir Hammad's works are different.
In "4:02 PM" Hammad tells the rough life of what she intended to be three women's tragic lives, however that when she was writing it "up the block a woman killed by her husband". The reader is made to feel empathetic for those that have lost someone and the hope that they still hang onto deep within. In "Talisman", she speaks of the words in the bible acting as a symbolic talisman that can always be carried with us. Suheir's tone is not only reassuring, but also a way of comforting those that may feel a spiritual imbalance.
Suheir's ability to change her tone in each of her works is part of what makes her phenomenal. In my opinion, writers have been shaped so much by their experiences that each of their works is in the same tone, but about different situations. The only thing common amongst Suheir's works is passion. Through her work, Suheir voices her opinions on different situations that occur not only in the United States, but in Arab nations too. She writes about current issues and how they shape our minds, but in a beautiful way.
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