What is the difference between an objective plot summary and a theme-based summary?
a. One includes the reader's opinions about how interesting the story is while the other
merely lists plot events.
B. One retells the story from the perspective of the narrator while the other describes
events as a reader who is not involved in the story.
C. One arranges plot events in chronological order while the other describes them in
reverse.
D. One focuses only on the story's plot while the other explains what the story reveals
or suggests about life.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.