Comparing Themes

The authors of both texts share very similar themes and beliefs. The main themes outlined in both texts are unity, similarity and equality. The authors present these themes in very similar and different ways. They both use the evidence of race for all the themes and country differences.

The most common theme outlined in both texts is the idea of unity. The idea of unity means all of us working together and acting as one group.¨ I note the obvious differences in the human family,¨ in this excerpt is from the first text she compares all humans to one family. She does this to show how we are all one and we should act as one group or a family. ¨ ... We all want to move in the same direction,” Barack Obama wants to show that we are all working for one common goal and it would make sense to work together to achieve this goal or any other goal in the future. The authors of both texts use a group to show this belief of unity, but they change it slightly. The author of the poem uses the whole world as a group or family as she said, whereas Barack Obama uses only the United

States. They present the same theme, but they present it differently. These differences of presentation show how the same theme can be showed many ways.
¨ We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike,¨ Maya Angelou uses this idea heavily.

This idea just means we have many differences like race and facial features but we are even more alike than we are unalike. In Barack Obama speech he explains his and his wife´s lineage, ¨ I am married to a black American who carries within her blood of slaves and slaveowners,¨ he uses the lineage of his wife to show that even though his wife is black she has white ancestors and that we all have common similarities with other families whether that is in our ancestors or us now. Both authors use some type of race or nationality to show similarities. Barack Obama uses his family's lineage to show the similarities between people whereas the first author uses the similarity´s of people´s features and the use of repetition. Both authors demonstrate this theme in different ways but both of them get the same

result.
The authors both demonstrate the belief of equality. ¨ The variety of our skin tones can confuse, bemuse delight, brown and pink and beige and purple, tan and blue and white,¨ the author never singles out a color because they are all equal and all of them confuse and delight. ¨A constitution that promised it people liberty and justice,¨ Barack Obama uses history to show how blacks and whites are equal. He uses the word people to show it is not just men or not just women but everyone. Barack Obama uses history as an example for equality. The first author sticks with present day and the past and talks about races in general.
The import thing to notice about these two texts is that they present the same themes but they do it in very different ways. The themes may be very alike but the presentations of these themes are very different.