Summary Of White Lies By Natasha Trethewey

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In the poem “White Lies” by Natasha Trethewey the most important phrase is growing up. The phrase growing up means multiple things and affects many pieces of the writing by telling it is a past memory and they talk about their bad choices. When their mother found out the last paragraph says that their mouth is washed out with soap. Throughout Natasha’s poem, she writes about when she was young and how she was one of the few white colored persons in a black society as well as her hardships. In the poem she is a white kid and makes dresses, when she goes to school there are only two white kids. In the poem she lives in a black society and her mouth is washed out with soap because she lies which shows how she can and is punished in ways that are

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