Compare And Contrast: Okita Vs. Cisneros

Writers such as Dwight Okita and Sandra Cisneros were greatly influenced by the American culture. "Response to Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okita, and "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros both authors establish the topic of American identity. In Okita's poem, American identity has more to do with how you experience culture than with where your family came from. Both Okita's poem and Cisneros's short story show that cultural heritage and physical appearances do not determine what it means to be American.

Family stories was the overall theme involved in both essays. Although “Lunch” tells the story of

The background of both narrators of “Mericans” and “In response to Executive Order 9066” comes from a Japanese or a Mexican-decent who are realizing cultural differences from their American life. However, the mistreating of a girl by her best friend compared to a girl who finds significant change between her two worlds that is tested by every cultures costumes of being victims of racial discrimination. The short story “Mericans” and the poem “In response to Executive Order 9066” can be a universal conflict between diverse heritage and cultural backgrounds that are determined by how America sees society.

The similarities between the stories may not appear very apparent at first over closer analyzation the appear more apparent .Both stories are focused around a brother and a sister whom

Lee’s essay “Magical Dinners” and Slater’s “Tripp Lake” are two stories that allows you to see different situations that involve a parent and a child. They both struggle with different things one being with dramatic life changes that come with being a foreigner moving to the united states and one being a childhood camp experience and the mothers maternal fear of the daughter.In Magical Dinners it showcases the story of the authors mother and the frustrations of living in a place with unfamiliar food,language and faces. In Tripp Lake the author is the narrator and you see the mothers feelings convey through her daughter being able to do things she wasn 't when she was younger. In these two stories we will look at the impact both mothers had on there child 's lives and trying to please them through the events , actions and motions involved.Based on reading the two stories Magical dinners and Tripp lake i found that they have similarities that produce two different results.

In "Response to Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okita, and "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros, both works resonate a theme of race barriers and discrimination. The first work is a poem written from the perspective of a Japanese girl that is bring sent to a relocation center. The latter work is a story written by a Mexican girl that is having some difficulties identifying with her culture. Although both stories are written in different contexts and scenarios, they both share themes of identity, discrimination, and the innocence of children.

Sal once again shows how both of the two stories tie together in the end in the chapter “Bybanks”. She says, “My mother’s story was behind Phoebe's” (Creech, 260). This helps us to understand that both of these stories are in many ways the same. Another example is how both stories focus largely on

The author of "Response to Executive Order 9066" builds characterization through two groups of people during world war 2. The literary analysis of the story is that Japanese-Americans are not enemies to the united states , and that they are citizens just like everyone else. The excerpt shows how the author is indifferent from the rest of society and that she is the same as any American teenage girl because , she shares the same language , interest , and hobbies as other girls. The authors tone in the "Response to Executive Order 9066" is confused because she as an individual has done nothing wrong to have these type of actions evoked on her.

These two stories have few things in common that can be described in a way that

n the story “Thank You M’am” and the story “An American Childhood”, it shows the turning points of the main characters. In the story “Thank You M’am”, a boy named Roger tried to steal a purse off of a lady named Mrs. Jones. The storyline is about how Roger learns to be trusted again. Markedly, in the story “An American Childhood”, there was a girl named Annie, who had a big interest in the area of Science. Whenever Annie would accomplish anything, her parents wouldn't really care. The story was mainly about how Annie realized that you can always pursue your own interests, even when nobody else really cares.

Well these two story are way similar to each other because they both are talking about somebody leaving going to another state and meeting new people or a new culture. Also the "Response to Executive Order 9066" is about a girl who always felt funny using chopsticks and her favorite food is hot dogs. Her best friend is a white girl named Denise —they look at boys together. While on the way to class one day her and the best friend got into like a little argument. But when they got thru arguing she was looking kind of sad and handed her friend a tomato seed.

Vargas and Yang’s article can be compared to another because they bought talk about the struggle one has to go through if you are a non-American, specifically a white born American. Although it is possible to succeed, Vargas and yang explain with example how much harder they have to work to achieve the American dream. Yet, they are also very different in the fact that Vargas came to this county illegally, oppose to Yang was born in this country. Vargas struggles and hurtles where due more to documentation, compare to Yang’s struggle comes down to Asian culture and what they have become use to and accept there role as American Asians.

A. In what ways are the two shorts stories by Shirley Jackson and D.H. Lawrence similar and different.

The thing that I am writing about is the Monsters are Due On Maple Street and The Andy Griffith Show. I am i going to tell how they are alike and different. Also i am to tell the differences and similarities in the mood,irony,theme,complications, and conflict.

The girl’s inner characterization resembles a coming of age character. She develops because of the action and her traits as a child are presented in contrast with her traits as a teenager. This contrast is emphasized using the third-person narrator at the beginning of