After analysing the painting, “On the Border of Mexico and The United States” by Frida Kahlo and the poem, “Legal Alien” by Pat Mora, it is evident that not only do they exhibit similar concepts, tone, and characteristics, but the demonstrate the exactly the same theme. The theme being demonstrated through both these pieces of work is that individuals may feel torn between multiple identities.
To begin, in the painting, “On the Border of Mexico and The United States” by Frida Kahlo, it is evident that there is a visual conflict between two sides of a women in the painting, Frida. In this painting there are two distinct sides of cultural differences, an American side and a Mexican side. Moreover, many aspects that align with the corresponding…show more content… Also, in this poem the speaker feel as if she doesn’t have an identity because (their eyes say, "You may speak Spanish but you're not like me")/ an American to Mexicans/ a Mexican to Americans.” Moreover, the speaker helps the poem exhibits a defeated and Matter-of-fact tone because the speaker has ultimately given up on fixing the situation, they don’t feel sad or upset about it, simply defeated and acceptant of being “Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural,” and “Bi-lateral.” Furthermore, this relates back to the theme that individuals may feel torn between multiple identities because, in the author’s situation, the speaker is also torn between two parts of his/herself, and individuals like the speaker, may feel torn between identities such as being classified as a Mexican or an
