Azar Nafisi Immigration Analysis

As an immigrant coming into America, people have different experiences; some love it and fit right in, some want to be “American” but are still outcasts because they are different, and some never grow accustomed to America with its society and culture. Two authors, Gary Shteyngart and Azar Nafisi, were both immigrants who came into the United States yet had very different experiences and feelings about America once there. Gary Shteyngart has lived in America since he was fourteen so he was used to American culture. In his essay he writes about a vacation he went on to Miami with his family;he was extremely embarrassed the entire time because of how “un-American” his family acted. As Azar Nafisi says in her essay, she lived in the United States, eleven years and five months, but wasn’t able to become a citizen until then. Unlike Shteyngart, who had a poor attitude about his experiences, Nafisi was very …show more content…
Nafisi’s essay used bright and cheerful language which conveyed the excitement her and all the other immigrants in the room felt that day they were made citizens; they were thrilled that they were becoming Americans.When Nafisi is talking to “No. 31” he “[points] to the small flag in [her] hand… and [says], ‘For the past ten years, I have kept an American flag in my apartment. I take it out, dust it, and put it back again.’ He paused and then said, ‘And now this!’ The next time he took his flag out, he would do so as an American citizen.” (Nafisi 364). There is no doubt that Nafisi and “No. 31” were both eager to become citizens. On the other hand, Shteyngart’s essay was saturated with words and phrases full of disgust, despisal, and malice. The reader could easily feel his loathing and embarrassment through the page because of his word choice and the way he creates his sentences. It’s very simple to distinguish the tones of these