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Similarities Between 'White Lies And By Another Name'

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Cultural Outsiders Many multi-cultural people live between two different cultures and often feel as if they do not belong in either. In the article “By Another Name” by Santha Rama Rau, two Indian sisters share their experience of going to an englo-indian school. In the poem “White Lies” by Natasha Thereway, the author presents a poor colored girl who lies to her community about who she really is in society. The two works differ because in the article the sisters mother does not get angry that her daughters were trying to change or “fit in” and in the poem the mother scolds her daughter for lying about herself , however the texts also have a couple similarities; both texts have characters who are ashamed about their ethnicity, and in both texts there are characters who struggle with being outsiders in their community. …show more content…

One of the daughters is discriminated by her teacher, and she became very upset and told her mother. “...So i do not think we should go back to that school.” (Rama Rau, pg 39) . In this text, one can see that the mother agreed to take them out of the school system. Thereways poem differs from the article because the girl in the poem has a fear of not being accepted in her community because she is a black, poor girl. “This is to purify you, she said, and cleanse your lying tongue.”(Thereway, line 23-25). In this quote one can see that the mother was very angry about her daughter

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