Compare And Contrast Essay On Race And Human Families

A perfect nation, total equality; doesn't that sound perfect. It's a common idea that many people of all races and parts of life share. In two text this theme is shown through each one, we are all alike and share common ideas, we are one. They both go about it in different ways though they do an excellent way of expressing their thoughts. The poem Human Family by Maya Angelou and Barack Obama´s speech on race, is what we are comparing.

To start off, in the poem titled Human Family by Maya Angelou, a theme shown is we are more alike than unalike. She develops this idea by repetition of simple words and phrases. In the poem the line ¨we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.¨ Maya repeats this phrase many times at the end, this has an effect on how important this is to her. She also brings up that we all are different but the same. She points out different skin tones, how they live, names, where they grew up, and love. With all the differences, the poems theme is that people are more alike than unalike.
The theme that is shown is we are one. Through the speech words of ¨perfect union¨ and ¨same direction.¨ The text goes on to talk about many common ideas we as americans share. The declaration of independence for example, many people of all kinds of life came together for the same reason. He talks about the topic slavery and issues of america, then says ¨we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction-towards a better future for our children and grandchildren.¨ Barack Obama stresses that yes we may not all be the same we are the same in the ideas we