After reading the novel you kind of see a different side of Brian. In the film, Brian is made to be the good guy and he is a doctor and doesn’t really show that he hates his job. In the novel he says “he hates sick people” and we find out that Irene forced him to be a doctor so he could take care of the family. In the novel, Irene and Brian had a fight that almost broke up their marriage because Brian wanted to go to Brazil. They relationship in the film is depicted differently than in the novel, sometimes you think why are they still together if they aren’t sexually attracted to each other in some way. I think black identity  is presented in different ways throughout the novel. When Clare starts to go to these events with Irene and Brian, she enjoys herself and dances all night which is apart of black culture. The novel does a good job of showing the different paths black people choose. In the 1920’s even though African Americans were gaining more freedom they still had to deal with segregation and racists.  Irene choose to marry a black man and have 2 kids knowing it’ll be a struggle to survive due to the fact that its post slavery. Clare choose to pass as a white women and marries a racist guy and has a kid with him. She enjoys the luxury of passing like eating at high end hotels and is very care free when she is at these events where they are black people around because deep down she is black. On page 95 it states “Besides he corrected “the man, her husband, didn’t call you a nigger. There’s a difference you know.” Brian said this and it made me think like he was trying to brush it off that Clare’s husband was racist instead of comforting her and doing what husband is supposed to do in that situation. Black identity is also represented in a similar way in the “Cordelia the Crude” reading. In the reading a young girl is force to move to Harlem from South Carolina leaving her friends and boyfriend and basically started over in New York. When they get to New York, she doesn’t want to work or go to school so she would watch her siblings during the day while her parents work. In “Cordelia The Crude” it states “However, the mere moving to Harlem had not doused the rebellious flame. Upon arriving Cordelia had not only refused to go to school and refused to even hold even the most easily held job, but had also victoriously defied her harassed parents so frequently when it came to matters of discipline.” This quotes shows how rebellious she was which lead her to make some bad decisions. During the night she would go to the theatre where she was popular because she got around quite a bit. I bring that up to show how rebellious and care free she was just like how Clare was care free in Passing. The crisis magazine by W.E.B Du Bois consist of different magazine covers which were used to shed light on racial inequality and women rights. This was one of the first magazines to do things like that because of W.E.B Du Bois being rebellious and trying to shed light on what was going on in the black communities. In one of the magazine covers named “Women Suffrage Number” it states “A superior training school for young colored women, throughly instructing its students as a mean of self support in dressmaking, cutting and drafting, domestic science, music, nurse training, millinery and an intermediate English course.” This quote shows that they are promoting school for colored women which was very rare because women were still fighting for their rights. It is clear black identity is represented similar in Passing, Cordelia the Crude, and the crisis magazine covers because of the rebellious theme to fight for what they believe in.