Prompt: After watching the short film Identity, write a blog post reflecting on how the masks in the film represent the pressure to fit in and the do you want your mask to restruggle to discover who you really are. Choose one moment from the film that stood out to you and explain why. Then, connect the film’s message to Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too” and to the mask you are creating in class. What part of your identityveal?

 Prompt Response: The masks in the film represent struggle to fit in because everybody else in the school have different colored masks then her. One moment in the film that stood out to me was in the lunchroom, because she was sitting alone because her mask was different from everyone else. The message of the poem "I Too" is about not fitting in with other people because of being a different race, this is similar to the short film. Which is about not fitting in with people because there mask doesn't look the same. I want my mask to represent where I'm from.

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