The American dream is the is an opportunity for people to have equal right to succeed in life regardless of one's ethnicity, religion, or gender. Many people immigrate to the United States looking for the American dream, but the price to pay is often very high. Reyna Grande is an immigrant who in her book The distance between us narrates her own experience about the struggles of coming to America and all the challenges she had to overcome in order to become successful.
In search for the American dream Reyna's parents left their country to cross the border but because of the risk that implicates and the money it costs Reyna was left behind with her siblings living with their grandparents in a place where they were not loved and the children needed to …show more content…
The birth of Reyna's third sibling created even more pain to the children when they felt replaced and forgotten "I felt so angry at my parents. I couldn’t understand why they asked for another child as if we three weren’t enough" (Grande 43). Separation was the first challenge that the Grande family had to overcome and like them many families. Tamara Hills wrote an article called "7 Consequences of Having an Emotionally Detached Parent" the consequences are affected adult relationships, Fear of attachment and love, Borderline and narcissistic personality traits, Selfishness, Substance abuse/dependency, Lack of identity and direction, Loss of hope, faith, and joy. Reyna felt humiliated whenever her friends called her orphan, she grew up without feeling loved by her parents and that affected her later in life when she could not make friends or good boyfriends her social skills were affected by the relationships with her parents, she was an insecure person. I lived a similar
In search for the American dream Reyna's parents left their country to cross the border but because of the risk that implicates and the money it costs Reyna was left behind with her siblings living with their grandparents in a place where they were not loved and the children needed to …show more content…
The birth of Reyna's third sibling created even more pain to the children when they felt replaced and forgotten "I felt so angry at my parents. I couldn’t understand why they asked for another child as if we three weren’t enough" (Grande 43). Separation was the first challenge that the Grande family had to overcome and like them many families. Tamara Hills wrote an article called "7 Consequences of Having an Emotionally Detached Parent" the consequences are affected adult relationships, Fear of attachment and love, Borderline and narcissistic personality traits, Selfishness, Substance abuse/dependency, Lack of identity and direction, Loss of hope, faith, and joy. Reyna felt humiliated whenever her friends called her orphan, she grew up without feeling loved by her parents and that affected her later in life when she could not make friends or good boyfriends her social skills were affected by the relationships with her parents, she was an insecure person. I lived a similar