Two themes of these chapters are racism, confusion, and pretend. I believe racism because through out the passage the narrator is getting wrongful treatment because of the color of his skin. I believe confusion because as the narrator reaches harlem he is confused on why the treatment is different from the south than up north. Pretend because as he reached up north he met some men that said that he will have stay to yourself self and play the game. The poem I, Too and Refugee in America  by Langston Hughes shows theses themea because it says that we are free even though they say that we are because we still have to look over our shoulders to make sure we dont make a mistake and that being black is hard when we want to be successful.

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