Theme For English B And Two Kinds Analysis

The American dream has been the ideal goal, for years. Some see that they have achieved their dream, while there are others who are still out searching for what the American dream is all about and there are the ones who gave up on finding the dream. The American dream is known for its qualities which are liberty, equality and the pursuit of happiness. These qualities are identified in both Hughes and Tan 's works of literature, in both pieces of literature "Theme for English B" and "Two Kinds" portray the America dream from the eyes of an outsider. No one in this world was created equal; every human being has different qualities and features, alongside all that racisms occurred in this world, and still does till this day. People differentiate …show more content…
It doesn 't matter if a person is white or black, color doesn 't make a person, a person composes themselves, and in the end all humans are the same "You are white_ /yet a part of me as i am a part of you. / That 's American" (31-33) the speaker speaks to the instructor directly, he starts out by stating the obvious, he tells the instructor that he is white , but despite the color difference between them , they are both humans , they are part of each other , and being colored doesn 't make him any less American than the instructor …show more content…
"Two Kinds from The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan is a story about a mother, who is determined to make her daughter a prodigy, the mother of the speaker in this story is a believer in the American dream "My Mother Believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America" (Tan 294) the mother believed in dreams coming true in America, and like any loving mother she wanted her daughter to have the best life, and to be the best person she could be. Throughout the story the mother of the speaker pushes her into pursuing different talents, but as time goes by the need to be perfect fades form the speakers mind. She finds that she needs to be herself and to stop living out her mother dreams "I won 't let her change me, I promised myself. I won 't be what I 'm not" (Tan 296) here the speaker finds part of her identity, to be herself, and not what her mother wants her to be. As foreigners who settle down in America might fear of losing tradition and culture, the fear of forgetting where they come from sets fear in their minds, for some those fears come true, they adapt to the culture around them , and become Americanized , and for others they adjust to their surroundings while keeping their culture alive in their daily lives. Nitin Nohria is a dean at Harvard business school who was an immigrant to the states for quite a