Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be discriminated against? In the excerpt “Kira-Kira” by Cynthia Kadohata, a Japanese family moves to Iowa to Georgia after the family’s small Oriental food store went out of business. The poem “I, Too” by Langston Hughes is about an african-american man is being discriminated against and him talking about when there will be civil rights and african-americans will be treated equally. There are similarities and differences in the authors’ perspective on what it means to be an american.
Discrimination occurs many times in both texts. Paragraph 31 from “Kira-Kira” says “They think we are like doormats- or ants or something.” When Lynn says this, she means that people just don’t notice them or care that they are there. They just get walked all over. In lines 2-3, from “I,Too”, it says “I am the darker brother/ They send me to eat in the kitchen.” In this quote, Hughes is saying that his co-workers don’t think that he is good enough to sit at the table with with them and they want him to go somewhere else, the kitchen. He …show more content…
On page 260 in “Kira-Kira”, the author does not use a very optimistic approach in her writing. She says “ Some of the kids at school may not talk to you…. Because they don’t want to know you.” Lynn is saying that some of the kids in Katie’s school might not talk to her because she is Japanese. Katie doesn’t understand why because she does not know that people discriminate against her and her family. In “I,Too”, the author used a more optimistic way of writing. On page 246, Hughes writes “ Tomorrow/ I’ll be at the table.” Hughes is saying that soon there will be civil rights. When there is, he will be treated the same as the people who discriminate against him. The authors’ perspectives are different because they both have a very different approach in writing about how they cope with their
Discrimination occurs many times in both texts. Paragraph 31 from “Kira-Kira” says “They think we are like doormats- or ants or something.” When Lynn says this, she means that people just don’t notice them or care that they are there. They just get walked all over. In lines 2-3, from “I,Too”, it says “I am the darker brother/ They send me to eat in the kitchen.” In this quote, Hughes is saying that his co-workers don’t think that he is good enough to sit at the table with with them and they want him to go somewhere else, the kitchen. He …show more content…
On page 260 in “Kira-Kira”, the author does not use a very optimistic approach in her writing. She says “ Some of the kids at school may not talk to you…. Because they don’t want to know you.” Lynn is saying that some of the kids in Katie’s school might not talk to her because she is Japanese. Katie doesn’t understand why because she does not know that people discriminate against her and her family. In “I,Too”, the author used a more optimistic way of writing. On page 246, Hughes writes “ Tomorrow/ I’ll be at the table.” Hughes is saying that soon there will be civil rights. When there is, he will be treated the same as the people who discriminate against him. The authors’ perspectives are different because they both have a very different approach in writing about how they cope with their