Comparison Of Eva Hoffman's Lost In Translation

An Analytic Comparison of Eva Hoffman’s “Lost In Translation” and Elizabeth Wong’s “The Struggle To Be An All- American Girl” In the articles “Lost In Translation” by Eva Hoffman and “The Struggle To Be An All- American Girl” by Elizabeth Wong, two different viewpoints are expressed toward on adapting the new cultures. Both authors show their attitudes on learning the new cultures with different ways in their articles. The immigrants, Eva and Elizabeth agree on the idea of “ When in Rome, do as the Romans do”; however, they act and view similarly and differently on adapting Canadian and American cultures. In the articles, both families have similar immigrant background. Eva points out that her mom has become easily challenged, because of losing sureness and authority in a new culture, and this infer it is very tough for her mom to adapt Canadian culture. In addition, by learning Canadian culture, Eva is viewed as an English in her mom’s eyes, and this makes an invisible separation between two generations. Similarly, in the article “The Struggle To Be An All- American Girl”, Elizabeth describes that how harsh her mom forces she and her brother to go to Chinese school. Also, her mom is criticized by her brother because of speaking bad English. This can infer that her mom is hard to integrate into the American culture as Eva’s mother …show more content…
Eva is hurt because her mom says she’s becoming “English” in paragraph 4 of her article “Lost In Translation”, and this can infer that she is still agrees on her personal ethnic identity, she just being less demonstrative as a real “English”. However, Elizabeth seems not satisfy as a Chinese in the last sentence of her article “The Struggle To Be An All- American Girl”, this can infer that she does not agree on her personal ethnic identity. She feels sadly as being a Chinese, and she wishes that she could have born as a real