After a few of the nuns from his school ask his parents to speak English around the house, Rodriguez takes his first steps toward becoming a ‘‘public man.’’ Such assimilation into American culture is necessary and valuable, he asserts. As the book progresses, Rodriguez relates the story of his growing up, the power and pain of family ties, the role of the Catholic Church in his life, and his staunch rejection of affirmative action for ethnic and racial minorities in education and in the
Anita Gates . Jennifer Williams journal 2 . 10/28 .2012 How do Tan and Rodriguez perspectives on bilingualism differ what are some common thread in their arguments. Both writers are immigrant fiction writers that has English as their second language and they grew up with parents that can hardly understand or speak good English. Rodriguez viewed bilingualism as two languages his Spanish language as private that is spoken in the family and this language bonded the family together and viewed English as public language and that has no impart to him when he was growing up according to his word he said ,i wrongly imagined that English was intrinsically a public language and Spanish was intrinsically private.'
My feelings for not speaking Spanish are that we speak more English because we are in America and that is the language spoken primarily. They have taken Spanish class and did ok but don’t use it much. My parents and I talk in Spanglish on a daily bases, especially if we don’t want to let my boys here what we are talking about. I don’t feel like not teaching them was a bad thing. I also feel like I don’t like it when I am approached by other ethnicities and spoken Spanish to.
He became a good collector of thoughts, but usually lacked his own opinion. Reading helped make him a more confident English speaker and writer. Education had changed his family’s life. He became resentful to his parents when they could not help him with homework which pushed him to read more. He became embarrassed at his parents lack of education,
Losing something that he is so connected to because of what it represents to him bothers him so much he stares out the window hoping the individual who took it would walk by with it on. These are not reactions most people would have when losing a shirt. Only because Romero grew up not having much and he bought this shirt with his own money before he had began his life with his wife did this shirt mean this much to him “Romero constantly had to discipline himself by remembering the past, how his parents lived; he had to teach himself to appreciate what he did have” pg
The mother in this case used a very well thought out choice of words in which it also means to stop running from the man that the author is meant to be, when she says “it’s time” the mother realizes he has been a careless person for most of his life and its now “time” for him to mature up and take action in his life to become the better man he is meant to be. Through having this enlightening conversation with his mother he later becomes a more disciplined individual after accepting that it was time to grow up.
The main characters of The Littoral Zone are middle-aged. They have already had children, have families and they have established careers based in academia. They live and move between New England towns during the story. The author gives almost no attention to their lives before meeting each other and instead focuses on their period of passion, their period of emotional dissonance and then the aftermath of their decision to be together. Sanchez, on the other hand, tells the story of a Mexican immigrant from the age of 17 and is almost a generational story as it begins with him dropping his son off to be a working man.
He has conflict in his mind that his family can never fit into his community, he also feels pressured to fit into his community hence he forces his family to adapt to the culture of the community for example, having to persuade his wife to carry out circumcision on his son on discovery that the youngest son Sajid was accidentally not circumcised as is preferred in Islam, Sajid is promptly taken to the hospital to get circumcised. He also expresses his embarrassment about his son Nazir
Mira’s negligence was clear to Mukherjee after she had been driven away from Canada. The state of an immigrant’s preference is as how he chooses his lifestyle. Adapting to a new country simply comes down to the person’s choice. I didn’t really understand let alone care about immigration and the negligence that my parents had to go through when moving to the U.S. Until, I myself visited Mexico. When I visited Mexico one summer, I was very fond of the atmosphere.
The third and fourth generation of immigrants is particularly different from previous generations of immigrants because of the failure to become a custom with economic status, intermarriage rates and education norms. Like I have said before, I believe that the Spanish language is such a powerful thing, but more and more immigrants are using Spanish as a primary language and not speaking English. Even if they do speak English it is often not the best. There is such a huge concentration in certain areas that amongst them English is not needed. I personally feel that as a American born citizen, all immigrants need to learn English.