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Audre Lorde's Hanging Fire

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Audre Lorde’s “Hanging Fire” goes into the thoughts and feelings a teenager may face. Some of these insecurities related to my teenage years, but Lorde’s story is still specific to her and maybe a few others. Lorde discusses stress related to dances, graduation, and high school drama, which are common topics for most high schoolers. For example, my freshman year of high school was filled with thoughts similar to Lorde’s. My first homecoming dance would be the first time dancing with a girl and I was so nervous about the whole ordeal. In high school, I faced similar rejections in terms to select choir and positions in the play, but I was not cut because of my race. Out of the themes discussed in the poem, the one that connected with my
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