Jurgis is a strong man who comes from Lithuania. He finds America as a new place in order to fulfill his needs: he wants to support his wife and his children to have a better life. However, it turns out that his family has become worse since. Capitalism has ruled the nation. The way Upton Sinclair writes about the change of Jurgis is quite interesting: how did Jurgis dream for American?
This is not right, or rational that people would risk so much in order to come to the United States, to work a job that most American citizens will not work. Yet we are hateful and mean, protesting, these people rights to make a living and support their families, if the work wasn’t here they would not come. Do you think the Native Americans like what happened to them, when the first generation immigrated to American, many Native Americans are still suffering the effect of the colonization of America. Published in the Huffington post a video “Native American Man Tells Anti-Illegal Immigration Protesters Who 'The Real Illegal Immigrants Are’ it goes on to say that a Native American man tells protesters “We didn’t invite none of you here. We’re the only Native Americans here.”(Ramos Z 2013) Are the Americans that don’t support open borders scared, because they don’t want what happened to the Native Americans,
Marco and Rodolpho are both brothers and Beatrices cousins who came to America in search of a job. But this is where their similarities end. Marco and Rodolpho came to America for different reasons. Marco came to America because he wanted to help his family. His oldest son is sick of tuberculoucious and is at risk of dying.
“The Namesake” The movie followed an Indian man who moves to the Unites States, for a better life after experiencing terrible accidents as a young man. The movie takes the viewer on a life journey of father and son relationship. After Ashoke, moved to the United States, he travels back to his homeland to find a wife. His marriage was arrange, this show from the beginning that Ashoke, culture was very important to him and keeping his tradition was also very important. After having his children he struggle to in stored these values in his children.
In the next story, A Temporary Matter, we see a man named Shukamar who tries to patch things up with his wife after their newborn son dies at birth. However, Shukumar is too late as his wife has already decided that she doesn’t want to be with him anymore. Both of these men seek a relationship whether it be with an exotic American or with their own wife; however, both men fail at their attempts to attain a relationship. Our first character, Dev, can be described as a selfish man who is simply looking for pleasure. Dev is an Indian man who seeks a sexual relationship with an American woman named Miranda.
His attempts to close the distance between them have a great influence on his personality and the events that happen in his life. The relationship between them is split into two parts; life in Afghanistan and the relocation to America. Their relationship changes throughout the novel; in the start him doing anything which would catch his father’s attention, at football matches with Baba ‘I faked interest for as long as possible.’ Here Amir is pretending to be someone he is not so he gets to spend time with his father and try to be the person Baba requires him to be. However they cannot have the relationship Amir desires because of the characteristics and expectations of each other – Baba is physically powerful, does financially well and is loved throughout the community and therefore expects Amir to follow in his footsteps, however is disappointed in Amir’s interest in writing, ‘Baba sensed my lack of genuine interest and resigned himself to the bleak fact that his son was never going to either play or watch soccer.’ Ironically with the move to America, Baba finds it hard to adapt and seems lesser than his former self, however life in America makes it easier for him to become a father. He is proud of Amirs accomplishments and
KR-J1: In “The Kite Runner”, by Khaled Hosseini, family was very important. It was a recurring topic that made its way in just about every chapter of this book. The family that was focused on was that of Amir, and his father who was known as Baba. Amir was a child that did not feel accepted by his father, and felt the need to impress him at any moment that was presented to him. Baba was a typical father that expected his son to be into athletic things such as soccer and such, and when Amir tried things of that nature, he felt bad because he was not as good as Baba had hoped.
This play was published in 1949 by a famous and well known author named Arthur Miller. The play was written after the Wall Street crash had struck in America when the country allowed immigrants to come into the country to work, stressing to them that anyone could live the American Dream if they worked hard enough regardless of social class and upbringing. The storyline features Willy Loman, an average individual who attempts to hide his failures behind a delusion and a dream as he strives to be a “Success” for himself and his sons. Bookends which is a poem written by Tony Harrison is about segregation from his mother who has sadly passed away but also separation from his father as his father never accepted to what Tony Harrison was doing with his life which was studying and studying. “Books, books, books” is a famous quote used by Tony Harrison to describe why the “Alienation” took place between him and his father.
Willy asks his neighbor to take a state test for one of his sons because he wants his son to get a good grade. These lessons that Willy is teaching his sons will not help them in life. In fact it will probably debilitate them. The American dream in which Willy and many other men of the era desires is one in which the children are successful in life and are able to help the parents in old age. By the lessons Willy is teaching his sons, he is keeping himself from
Abbie Schwarz ENC 1102 2.19.2012 Oedipus Complex Questions 1. The child in the story is used to not having his father around very much. When his father comes home from the war, the child is worried that his father will take his place. The child is trying to vow for the most of his mother’s attention. The expected reaction to his father’s rare appearances would be what the child did in the story.