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Flowers and weeds, the majority amount of people would supposedly relate them to their real life counterparts, being the plants you would see in your garden. However, in “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco he compares them to people and separates them into to two different groups, weeds and flowers. The overwhelming power of society’s pressure on those who are not like everyone else is tough, just staying different is hard, but the outcome is worth the effort.
Flowers are the bright, colorful, wonderfully scented plants that usually grow in the back of your house. Flowers often appear in bunches or groups that would live together and depend on each other, growing “in clusters in a fertile valley”(16). Polanco relates the idea of flowers sticking

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