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This job examines various authors' approaches of struggling with identity within the literature. Quotes are provided.

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Identity themes in literature are explicated.

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As you pick two pieces that you like and know about for the issues of identity struggles, I chose the two poems. As you look first at how Olds presents the issue of identity within the literature, she seems to assert how male identity is formed closely from stereotypes and images of violence, masculinity, physicality, competition, and dominance. She seems to show that society's cultural and gender norms and expectations shape how boys struggle and learn to become males.

Her use of alliteration with "jostling, jockeying," seems to show the play fighting as a way to shape identity for her son and the other boys. By using animal metaphors to show their barbaric actions, she says "They eye each other, seeing themselves tiny in the other's pupils." She uses this metaphor and the banker metaphor to align their in sense ...

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