Immigration greatly affects how people live life and can create many differences in between generations. The parents and children in the three stores, “Who’s Irish”, “Two Kinds”, and “Children of Loneliness”, all adapt differently to moving to America. In one of the stories,
“Two Kinds”, the parents are the ones to adapt quicker and believe in changing to do things and be like the other Americans. In the other two stories, the children are the ones to adapt and believe it is okay to let go of an old lifestyle. Although the parents and children are both immigrants in “Who’s Irish”, “Two Kinds” and, “Children of Loneliness”, the children and their parents have different ideas about discipline and priorities, difference of expectations, and different ways in …show more content…
Because the mother believes America is the land of opportunity, she pushes her daughter to try and do more than she could have ever done before they became immigrants. However, it is the mother’s expectations that really change; the daughter only listens and does what she is told by her mother. While in “Children of Loneliness”, the daughter grows higher expectations in the new culture than her own parents. The daughter goes to college and is taught by people already immune to the culture to do things the Americans do. But when the daughter returns how to visit her parents, she becomes disgusted on how they live and how they do things so unlike the
Americans. Her parents believe their daughter feels above them and asks her if she thinks she
“got a different skin from [them] because [she] went to college” (Children of Loneliness p. 179).
The parents think there is nothing wrong with the way the live, eat, and breath. They believe that the daughter is just not living in the way she was raised. Because of immigration, the parents and their children begin to see and live life differently, which creates a cultural divide in the
“Two Kinds”, the parents are the ones to adapt quicker and believe in changing to do things and be like the other Americans. In the other two stories, the children are the ones to adapt and believe it is okay to let go of an old lifestyle. Although the parents and children are both immigrants in “Who’s Irish”, “Two Kinds” and, “Children of Loneliness”, the children and their parents have different ideas about discipline and priorities, difference of expectations, and different ways in …show more content…
Because the mother believes America is the land of opportunity, she pushes her daughter to try and do more than she could have ever done before they became immigrants. However, it is the mother’s expectations that really change; the daughter only listens and does what she is told by her mother. While in “Children of Loneliness”, the daughter grows higher expectations in the new culture than her own parents. The daughter goes to college and is taught by people already immune to the culture to do things the Americans do. But when the daughter returns how to visit her parents, she becomes disgusted on how they live and how they do things so unlike the
Americans. Her parents believe their daughter feels above them and asks her if she thinks she
“got a different skin from [them] because [she] went to college” (Children of Loneliness p. 179).
The parents think there is nothing wrong with the way the live, eat, and breath. They believe that the daughter is just not living in the way she was raised. Because of immigration, the parents and their children begin to see and live life differently, which creates a cultural divide in the