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These poems share a common theme of trying to find one’s identity. However, the writers’ disposition contrast slightly due to the time they were written. In What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl, the character is alienated because of her race. As she explains what it’s like to be a black girl going through puberty you notice that she doesn't feel accepted in her society when she says that she feels like everything is wrong about her, and the things she does to herself. "It's dropping food coloring in your eyes to make them blue and suffering the pain in silence” (Smith 1991). This quote goes into the misconception that being blue eyed makes you pretty. “It's popping a bleached white mop head over the kinks of your hair and primping in front of the mirrors that deny your reflection" (Smith, 1991). Most black women in that era felt that to be accepted or pretty they needed to be blue eyed and blonde haired which was the American ideal of beauty. Being black in an era filled with racism most black people struggled with finding their identity, as did Langston Hughes in Theme for English B. As Langston Hughes reflects on what is true to him being twenty-two in an all-white class, and having to write a paper about himself he is a little conflicted because at the age of twenty-two and being in an era where racism is prevalent he's not allowed to like the same things that other races like which is why writing this paper is no easy task. As he starts to write he decides that because he is black his paper will not be white, but it will be a part of his instructor because he is white and also apart of him because he is American. Although sometimes he doesn’t want to be a part of his instructor, and his instructor doesn’t want to be a part of him but at the end of the day they are equal because they are American (Hughes, 1994). Both authors are trying to find their place in society, and where they belong during a tumultuous time.

The connection between my topic sentence and thesis is that my thesis talks about how each character in the poems are trying to find their identities. I think it is a little clear but could use a lot more work. I feel that it is very vague.

The reference supports the topic sentence because I go right into talking about what my topic sentence is actually talking about using the references. I chose those references because they go right along with the point I am trying to make. This connection would be clear.

I think everything I have in it supports the topic, but I think I am going in the wrong direction with this.

Writing this paragraph was really challenging to me because I understand the prompt, and I fell I have good material to support it. I am just not sure how to word it to make it understandable. I feel that I am going in the wrong direction with this so I would love any feedback I am given.