Isabel Allende, in her memoir My Invented Country, connotes her experience as an Immigrant around the world before settling in America with feelings of misery and emptiness. She recalls her experience escaping her homeland and traveling as the step-daughter of a diplomat as incredibly lonely without a defined sense of direction. Allende experiences reveries of Chile that nip at her heels and cause her to crave home. She rejects the racism of the society and experiences difficulty in assimilating to the difference in attitude and values of the two countries. Allende ultimately finds solace as an immigrant through writing and expresses her experiences positive and negative through the characters of her various novels.
Allende describes the population of her native homeland to have many faces. There is the “the face of the tiger that spends its life counting it’s stripes and cleaning it’s whiskers, another depressed, crisscrossed by the brutal scars of the past; and the one that with resignation awaits the next geological or political cataclysm. Chile has a little bit of everything” (24). The face people of Chile area an angry and spiteful people. A …show more content…
“When I arrived in the United States and fell in love with my husband, Willie, I decided that I would adapt myself. I never had when I lived in Venezuela; I was always looking south, always wanting to go back to Chile, always nostalgic for my extended family. When I came here, I said, "No, I will cut off all this. I will be Willie's wife, and I will form another extended family here" "Isabel Allende on California's Mythic Past". Allende had traveled all over the world, yet no country other than the United States had made her come to the realization that this can be her home if she allows herself to adapt and accept it as her new
Allende describes the population of her native homeland to have many faces. There is the “the face of the tiger that spends its life counting it’s stripes and cleaning it’s whiskers, another depressed, crisscrossed by the brutal scars of the past; and the one that with resignation awaits the next geological or political cataclysm. Chile has a little bit of everything” (24). The face people of Chile area an angry and spiteful people. A …show more content…
“When I arrived in the United States and fell in love with my husband, Willie, I decided that I would adapt myself. I never had when I lived in Venezuela; I was always looking south, always wanting to go back to Chile, always nostalgic for my extended family. When I came here, I said, "No, I will cut off all this. I will be Willie's wife, and I will form another extended family here" "Isabel Allende on California's Mythic Past". Allende had traveled all over the world, yet no country other than the United States had made her come to the realization that this can be her home if she allows herself to adapt and accept it as her new