"We Wear the Mask" and "Identity"
In both the poem "We Wear the Mask" and the short film "Identity" there are people with masks on. The masks are hiding something and making people see something different. In the poem, we see black people wearing a mask. The mask tells us that they might be ashamed of their skin color, not because they think that it is bad but because others see it in a bad way. Blacks people are treated poorly and they just want to hide that and make it look like everything is okay even though deep down they are suffering from injustice. "Identity" has a similar idea. People try to hide their true colors from others to try to get acceptance. The only difference is that one is a student trying to fit in and be accepted by her peers and one black society trying to make it through without being ashamed or showing how they truly feel. Everyone seems to just want to fit in. They are different though too because in the end of the short film the girl finally takes her mask off to show her true self to the world while the poet stays hidden behind his mask.
