Summary Of The Story 'Newcomer' By Language Barrier

Immigrants in Canada have a strong belief of “Land full of Opportunities” and a desired life that a developed country can give them. People from different parts of world move to Canada with a hope to live a better life. However, on immigration to a different place there are various obstacles that one has to face. Barriers like language, racism, culture etc hinder immigrant’s progress in a new place. In the following journal entry, I will be discussing in detail about various barriers, based in excerpts from stories by Mehri Yalfani, Himani Bannerji and Isabel Vincent.

According to the writer Mehri Yalfani, in the story “Newcomer” language barrier is the most common hurdle illustrated for immigrants. She depicted her own experience in the story. Her struggle on immigration from Iran to France and later then to Canada explained the hardships she went through. Her biggest obstacle was language as she was quiet person and could rarely speak English appropriately. She avoided speaking as she felt nervous on pronouncing wrong words. This further broke her confidence on communicating verbally. She also avoided speaking up in …show more content…
A well known author “Himani Bannerji” depicts the problem of racism in her story “The other family”. In this story she talks about an African mother and her fear for her child growing up in Canada with the values and ideologies different than her and feels rejected by her own child. When her daughter comes home with a sketch of her family that resembles a “white” family, her mother felt rejected in her own skin, “Panic at the thought of losing her child, despair and guilt galvanized her into speech she rejected, and she looked with anger at her only child, who it seemed wanted to be white who had rejected her dark mother. Someday this child would be ashamed of her, she thought, someday would move out into the world of those others. Someday they would be