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George Plymenos Dr Jane Mandalios EN 1212 20.01.2009 Write an essay identifying what you see as a common thread in all four texts Second Draft All four texts have a common idea, Whilst they appear irrelevant prima facie they all have as a bases the comparison of two different worlds and their interaction once they approach each other through the mean of education. In the first text “Butterflies” by Patricia Grace we have a comparison between the deprived class and the privileged white society. We observe that there are differences between the corresponding characters, the little girl and her grandparents, which basically are a result of the fact that the grandparents are farmers and ill educated (which shows in the poor use of English “Do what she say, “You bring your book home”, “you write your story” and the pride they take that the granddaughter goes to school “He said to a neighbor…the neighbor said”). In contrast, the girl is going to school thus having contact with people from the upper class -her teacher- and potentially through education and school joining them. The differences between the grandparents and the teacher particularly show in the last paragraph in which the teacher looks at the butterflies as “pretty”, while the grandparents look at them as plain insects which can ruin their crops. In the second text by Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B” the poet presents the racism that African Americans receive and how they can overcome it by becoming educated like the whites (“I guess being colored…other races”). Plus, it is suggested that the white instructor has the advantage compared to the college student (“Although…free”). He also refers to a possible interaction between the colored student and the white instructor who however different they may sometimes be (“being me it will not be white”, “sometimes perhaps…part of you”) they have a lot to offer to each other since through school and education they merge into one united front (“you are...