Summary Of What It's Like To Be A Black Girl

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Patricia Smith is famous America Black poet, playwright and teacher. Her verse “What It’s Like to Be A Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren’t)” is a painful piece of writing, which reveals the target audience the difficulties, which experience Blacks within the American Society. Her poem is deprived of embellishments and presents the truth the way it is, author straightforwardly depicts all the hurdles and discrimination, which she as a girl has encountered. Patricia Smith uses tone in her poem " What It’s Like to Be A Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren’t)" in two different ways. Smith changes it from angry to acceptance. Smith starts her poem with "first of all" which is not welcoming. She talking to the reader but she doesn't say hello. She talks about " Not Finished" which reveals that she is angry and blaming someone else, about how she look. Than Smith changes the tone to acceptance. She uses " Finally". Which is commonly uses when someone finished something difficult. Here she is done struggling with herself to be someone that she is not. …show more content…

There is a feeling that she reveals the audience the story of her childhood and youth. Moreover, the first lines which start with the words “first of all”. These words confirm that the story is finished, and the author’s words are just depiction of the past experience. The plot of this verse discusses the discrimination and rape. Moreover, the author reminds the time of her puberty. She was not a little girl, but was not a teenager. Her body started changing, and she felt herself “Not finished”. and not comfortable with her image which reflects in the mirror, like there is something more to add in

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