Identity In Everyday Use, And The Theme For English B

There are times in our life where we feel to question who we actually are; however, we often recognized people by their color of skin or structure of face. But does that tell anything specifically about specific person or about their personality. As some authors mentions in their literary pieces which shows that the character is in search of their true identity. In the following literary work “Blue Winds Dancing” by Thomas Whitecloud, “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, and “The Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes in which the characters have struggled in order to find their identity.
In “Blue Winds Dancing”, the narrator who moved from Wisconsin to California for his studies is coming back home for Christmas. As the narrator is getting closer to home, he wonders “Am I Indian, or am I white” (Whitecloud 4). The narrator finds himself lost between …show more content…
In “Everyday Use”, Dee who is the antagonist in the short story went to college where she forgets her identity and adopts a new identity and culture. Dee sees her culture as an outdated and something not modern so she changes her name to Wangero. The quilt is the biggest symbol in this short story because it identity’s that Dee struggled between her heritage and culture. As addressed “God knows I been saving ‘em for long enough with nobody using ‘em. I hope she will!” “I didn't want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told they were old-fashioned, out of style”” (Walker 328). She never had respect for her culture and where she actually belonged to, and when it came to giving the quilt she wanted to use them as a decoration. In “Theme for English B” the person gets an assignment to write about themselves, which the persona has a difficult time writing. As the person states “I am the only colored student in