Papa Who Wakes Tired In The Dark, By Pat Mora

Identity, who “we” are, defines “us” as individual beings. Every person is different and unique, but as a person born in the generation where technology deeply impacts the lives of both people who does and people who does not use it, I firmly believe that we are losing our individuality little by little. However, I still have many more chances to redeem and continue to discover myself even more. Through many experiences, I have found that some of my identity is shaped by education, family and my image. Additionally, education has given me a chance to take a moment to think about my identity and connect it with texts such as, “Women,” by Alice Walker, ”Papa Who Wakes Tired in the Dark,” by Sandra Cisneros, and “Same Song,” by Pat Mora. In other words, there are billions of other individual in this world, but my identity alone will

To start off, in the poem, “Women,” Walker writes about a generation where women had fight for education for their younglings. Unlike the generation I live in, these women had little rights and had to fight for it whereas my rights were given to me at birth. When I learned that life was not always easy, like how California is in a drought due to the lack of rain, I learned to appreciate the little things such as little rain shower. Additionally, the women “...battered down doors,”(7-8). It is obvious that women did not actually break doors, but it is a metaphor to show the obstacles women faced. With the abilities that I have gain through education, I always preserve through hardships and work harder. For example, when I took a test that was similar to the SAT in 8th grade, I wanted to give up because there were many things I did not know. Even