One thing you can never change is who you are on the inside, your origins, and a beautiful quote that represents this understanding is “Some people like you, some people don't. In the end, you just have to be yourself “ ( Andres Iniesta). Similar to this quote, in the passage “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, the narrator Amy falls in love with a boy named Robert (The Minister's son). The way her culture lives is very distinct to the way Robert lives, because of this she is appalled by the way her family eats in front of their family and is disgusted by their actions. Similarly in the Passage “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez, the narrator Richard is distinguishing himself from his family because he grew more attached to
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In “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, Amy is disgusted by her family’s actions of eating in front of the Americans that witness something else every day: “Then my father poked his chopsticks just below the fisheye and plucked out the soft meat….at the end of my meal, my father leaned back and belched loudly”(Tan 24). For the narrator this repulsed her from her culture even more for the Americans did not do this in their culture. Likewise, in “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez, Richard is losing his sense of culture with his family when he decides to be more involved with the American language English: “It was more troubling to hear my parents speaking in public: englishTheir high-whining vowels and guttural consonants” (Rodriguez 25). Richard is criticizing his family, who are immigrants, that they are not excepEnglish speakers, indicating his departure from his culture and family even more. Taking a closer look will show that both narrators have found problems with their own families and show that they have a distaste for their cultures. The importance of this information relates to how each narrator perceives their family as intolerant, short-sighted and …show more content…
In “Fish Cheeks” the narrator was trying to find love for her with a boy named Robert who is an American, while in “Aria” the narrator is trying to hold on to whatever was left of the unity the family had. In “Fish Cheeks” the narrator Amy is acting like somebody she is not on the outside to impress a boy and kept thinking: “What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas? What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners?” (Tan 23). The questions she asks symbolize the amount of thought she put into how much Robert will think of her family and culture when really she should have been it doesn't matter whether he likes it or not because that's not who she is on the inside. On the other hand in “Aria” the narrator Richard is identifying with the native language of English in America and is struggling to understand himself: “My parents would say something to me and I would feel embraced….I recognize you as someone special, close”( Rodriguez 25). Richard is trying to cope with English and Spanish, but with Spanish, he is saying that he feels more accepted and when he speaks it he is more at home than when
In “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, Amy is disgusted by her family’s actions of eating in front of the Americans that witness something else every day: “Then my father poked his chopsticks just below the fisheye and plucked out the soft meat….at the end of my meal, my father leaned back and belched loudly”(Tan 24). For the narrator this repulsed her from her culture even more for the Americans did not do this in their culture. Likewise, in “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez, Richard is losing his sense of culture with his family when he decides to be more involved with the American language English: “It was more troubling to hear my parents speaking in public: englishTheir high-whining vowels and guttural consonants” (Rodriguez 25). Richard is criticizing his family, who are immigrants, that they are not excepEnglish speakers, indicating his departure from his culture and family even more. Taking a closer look will show that both narrators have found problems with their own families and show that they have a distaste for their cultures. The importance of this information relates to how each narrator perceives their family as intolerant, short-sighted and …show more content…
In “Fish Cheeks” the narrator was trying to find love for her with a boy named Robert who is an American, while in “Aria” the narrator is trying to hold on to whatever was left of the unity the family had. In “Fish Cheeks” the narrator Amy is acting like somebody she is not on the outside to impress a boy and kept thinking: “What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas? What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners?” (Tan 23). The questions she asks symbolize the amount of thought she put into how much Robert will think of her family and culture when really she should have been it doesn't matter whether he likes it or not because that's not who she is on the inside. On the other hand in “Aria” the narrator Richard is identifying with the native language of English in America and is struggling to understand himself: “My parents would say something to me and I would feel embraced….I recognize you as someone special, close”( Rodriguez 25). Richard is trying to cope with English and Spanish, but with Spanish, he is saying that he feels more accepted and when he speaks it he is more at home than when