Eva Hoffman Lost In Translation Summary

Reflective statement on Eva Hoffman’s Lost in translation From my experience on reading this memoir of a young girl moving to whole different place with another culture, another language, and another friends. I myself experienced moving from my original country Egypt to the United States which was a really hard journey for me making new friends and having to live in a culture that is completely different than my original culture. Same with Hoffman and her family, it was really difficult for Hoffman moving from Poland to Canada because first of all, in these two countries they spoke two different languages which made her social life miserable. Also the culture was different. For example in my culture there is nothing such a thing as boyfriend …show more content…
It brings sympathy to the reader because some people sometimes have to move from their own homes to a whole different country because of a lack of education or persecution or any other situation. Hoffman delivers her message through culture. She faced a lot of problems regarding the culture. Her home was paradise to her and America was her exile. That’s how she compared the two different cultures that she experienced. She also talks about the language and how it was hard for her and her family to communicate with the other people that she called the students at her school aliens. By this she means that she couldn’t understand their language that she thought these people were from another world. Last but not least and the most important thing is the identity. Eva faces a lot of problems regarding identity. One of them was her teachers forces her to change her name in order to be one of them. Throughout the novel Eva tries her hardest in order to be an American for example she forced herself to write her diary in English in order be a good writer. However, Hoffman accepts the challenge and she fought until she became a successful American