Reading reflection Essay. Literature & Language Assignment

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Reading Reflection Essay
What did you learn from reading these pieces together? Is there a central harmony or conflict at their heart of them as a group?
All the texts, Citizen: “You are in the dark, in the car” by Claudia Rankine, the Change by Tony Hoagland, and Flounder by Natasha Trethewey, try to communicate certain messages which are not easily discernible. Reading them together revealed one main theme which is change. I got to encounter historical change, personal growth, and change in perspective when I read the essays together. Well, they do approach it from certain perspectives but the idea of change is mirrored in each. Additionally, from the three, I learned that change is not forced, it cannot be stopped or wished away and that no matter how hard some may try to resent it, it always has its way. This idea of change forcing its way through is depicted quite strongly in the three texts.
From the first text, I gathered that the persona was bothered by the status quo. She had seen and experienced racism albeit not directly it seemed because from the start one gathers that she is white. “And yes, you want it to stop, you want the black child pushed to the ground to be seen, to be helped to his feet and be brushed off, not brushed off” (Rankine, stanza 10). The persona desires change but it was clear that not everyone shared her enthusiasm. In the second reading, a similar situation is depicted as the persona is hesitant to accept change and anyone who is not considered as her kind. However, her friend did yearn for change and the author writes that “and you loved her hair and her...