An identity is a role played by an individual expressed with new customs and a different lifestyle based on self-decision. People tend to manipulate their personalities when confronting to people with different personalities in the society. Some individuals are secure with their own identity while others are unsure and continue their search to fit in. No one appears to be exempt from the harsh realities offered by the ambiguity of human identity. Kathleen McCarty’s poem “The World We Live In” is about people who do not accept their identity because they are sacred of the society they live in. Marjorie Celina’s novel Y on the other hand is about a girl named Shannon who is anxious to know about her birth parents so she can find the uniqueness in her identity. While McCarty demonstrates that individuals lose their identity in order to conform to society’s expectations and remove their chances of being judged, Celona stresses that some people are born with a lost identity and until they succeed to find the hidden truth of their lives, they do not feel involved in this world. Even though McCarty and Celona have different analogy in portraying loss of identity, they both focus on the importance of distinctive individualism. McCarty and Celona made an incredible use of tone to show that humans must search for their unique identity and conform to it. McCarty with the use of sympathetic tone describes that when people try to follow others, they are left somewhere in the middle as not only they lose their own identity but also fail to be the one they are trying to follow. McCarty gives a beautiful message in her poem, “Be a little different and don’t be afraid, // Of the world you live in, // A world you have made,” (McCarty 25-27) This world belongs evenly to each individual residing on this sphere, hence they all have equal rights to be themselves and not be judged. Similarly Celona in her novel Y describes Shannon’s life