... they dreamed of going back to their birthplace and someday making it in their mother-country Africa. All of the characters in the play are caught between two cultures, even Shelley, the only white character in the play. The Mother in Strange Fruit, alike to Max in Bent, also hides her true identity to a certain extent. Unlike ... I"d been reading the wrong books, listening to lies." This shows us the confusion Mother once had about where she felt she belonged. In Strange Fruit it is Alvin's character that changes the most and this is mainly due to the confusion he experiences ... comes ba...

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... culture, yet differences began to accumulate. It was these differences that would begin to change him. The first owners that he -2 was with were from Africa and their land resembled that of the land that Equiano grew up on. They spoke a language similar to his own and resembled the people that he was accustomed to. Of these similarities and differences he said ... just variations of his own, but as he met more people other than those of Africa, the languages became totally different. Especially noted of the English language, which was very strange to Equiano, but he learned it because h...

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• Grade Level: High School