Challenges of growing up
The two poems “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco and “Hard On Gas” by Janet S. Wong both use symbols to explain how growing up is like. In “Identity” the author uses weed and flowers as different types of people. In “Hard On Gas” it uses a rough car drive to show that life is hard.
In “Identity” the symbol the author uses are flowers. The flowers are people who get everything and that everyone loves them. While the weed, which the author wants to be, is looked down by everyone because they aren't as beautiful meaning that no one really cares about them. This is stated in stanza five lines 13-18 page 80, “I’d rather be unseen and if then shunned by everyone than to be a pleasant-smelling flower, growing in cluster in
The two poems “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco and “Hard On Gas” by Janet S. Wong both use symbols to explain how growing up is like. In “Identity” the author uses weed and flowers as different types of people. In “Hard On Gas” it uses a rough car drive to show that life is hard.
In “Identity” the symbol the author uses are flowers. The flowers are people who get everything and that everyone loves them. While the weed, which the author wants to be, is looked down by everyone because they aren't as beautiful meaning that no one really cares about them. This is stated in stanza five lines 13-18 page 80, “I’d rather be unseen and if then shunned by everyone than to be a pleasant-smelling flower, growing in cluster in