In the story Saying “Adios” to Spanglish Leticia Salais writes about how she was embarrassed to speak Spanish in public places. She explains furthermore that her reasoning stems from her poverty growing up. When she had her first son ,she didn’t want her son speaking Spanish, “I never spoke a word of Spanish around him…his grandparents asked why he did not understand what they were saying , I made excuses…in reality I didn’t want him to speak it at all”( 180 Isaacs et al). While working at a nursing home Salais felt at ease with the patients, she met that spoke both English and Spanish. After realizing that being bilingual is a good thing, she started to teach her second son Spanish while her husband taught him English.
Firoozeh Dumas explains how complicated it was for her father and mother to learn English. Her father who went to college in America had little to no contact with many Americans during his college years so most of the English language he learn was as …show more content…
Caroline Hwang admits that she wanted to please her mother and father. Her parents moved to America, had her, and wanted her to be American. One day while picking up clothes, she recognizes the person behind the counter is Korean and Hawng pronounces her name to her. The woman does not understand Hawngs pronunciation but after a little, she recognizes what she said. When the author speaks to her mother, she asks her “When I got home, I called my parents why they never bothered to correct me,”Big deal,” my mother said” (64). The author explains while living with her parents they made her American as possible. This made her not feel like an American and yet not totally Korean either. While in graduate school, Hwang had enough of what her parents wanted for her and she dropped out. She eventually became a writer but her reasoning behind that was to make her own decisions for once and not her
Firoozeh Dumas explains how complicated it was for her father and mother to learn English. Her father who went to college in America had little to no contact with many Americans during his college years so most of the English language he learn was as …show more content…
Caroline Hwang admits that she wanted to please her mother and father. Her parents moved to America, had her, and wanted her to be American. One day while picking up clothes, she recognizes the person behind the counter is Korean and Hawng pronounces her name to her. The woman does not understand Hawngs pronunciation but after a little, she recognizes what she said. When the author speaks to her mother, she asks her “When I got home, I called my parents why they never bothered to correct me,”Big deal,” my mother said” (64). The author explains while living with her parents they made her American as possible. This made her not feel like an American and yet not totally Korean either. While in graduate school, Hwang had enough of what her parents wanted for her and she dropped out. She eventually became a writer but her reasoning behind that was to make her own decisions for once and not her