By employing similes, this text explores discrimination, one of its main themes. The author mainly showcases how obvious white privilege is, and how it makes way for an easier life, where freedom is accessible. The author depicts a scene where the main character (brother of the narrator) and his friend are stopped on the Canadian Border on the basis of suspicion. Why? Their appearance. There, they are treated unjustly, and quite similarly to criminals, as they are being “bombarded with questions” (Wolpé 124). To describe the attitude of the interrogator towards the two friends, the author…