The article, “The F Word,” written by Firoozeh Duman, is based on the life trails of an immigrant woman here in America, with a hard-to-pronounce name. Throughout this article she uses humor to describe some of her obstacles she faced here in America with her given name. Firoozeh felt very connected to her name. However, the way that Americans responded to her unfamiliar, hard-to-pronounce name lead her to feeling like changing her name to an American. Thinking this may make life simpler for her. She was tired of being excluded, feeling isolated from society, made fun and the poor pronunciation of her name, she became Julie. It was then that she began to feel excepted and finally able to fit in. She went back and forth through her life using
