Owen closed his eyes and gulped. He felt a bulge in the back of his throat. His stomach was full of butterflies, and his palms were wet. He wiped his palms on his jeans and walked up to the turnstile. They were next in line. The Speed Demon roller coaster came to a screeching halt in front of him, and the giddy passengers stepped off, commenting on how steep the drop was. Here goes nothing, he thought to himself as he shakily stepped onto the ride. In one to two sentences, identify at least three details from the paragraph that help the writer show Owen’s feelings without saying them directly.

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.