After watching the short film Identity, write a blog post reflecting on how the masks in the film represent the pressure to fit in and the struggle to discover who you really are. Choose one moment from the film that stood out to you and explain why. Then, connect the film’s message to Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too” and to the mask you are creating in class. What part of your identity do you want your mask to reveal?

 The masks represent covering up your true identity for the sake of fitting in with the norms that society have set in place. "Masking who you are." When you've had to go most of your life trying to be like everyone else, it is difficult to condition yourself out of that and be true to yourself. But once you discover who you are and what you want, there is no going back. One moment that stood out to me was when she went out without her mask, figuring out who she was, and everyone who still had masks on turned their heads to stare at her, as if someone expressing individuality was such a foreign concept to them. The film's message connects to the poem because both discuss topics of somewhat being shunned for being different. The part of my identity that I want my mask to reveal are the things that make me, me. parts of my life that have shaped how I am now.