Two Worlds, One Cause
We live in a diverse world, where by culture migrate and interact with each other. There are benefits to it such as sharing of traditions and interacting with new surroundings but the deeper root if the problem is very evident in many situations. Wooldridge explains that less than thirty years ago, persons used to refer to themselves as simply “Americans” but now they are divide themselves as being: African-Americans, Korean-Americans etc. In other words, they do not hold allegiance to or loyalty as an American (2008), with this comes segregation among people and discrimination among culture and their practices. In the novels that were discussed many themes are prominent and some were even common within the each other. Common themes to be explored within this paper will be flight and transformation of characters, Milkman and Caridad; and Feminism and entrapment of Hagar and Sofi.
We encounter the Dead family coming from a past of hardship and the struggle for success they had to endure to get to the point in which they are. Macon, having his father die at a young age had to learn to take care of himself and become the man is now. Macon Jr. “Milkman”, on the other hand, had everything given to him …show more content…
Feminism and the entrapment that they experience is outstands vibrantly with the Ana Castillo’s novel, mainly because the main characters are all females living in New Mexico. Ana Castillo goes on to discuss that apart from feminism itself, they like to call it: Xicanisma, Chicana Feminism. “Xicanisma is a framework that helps us think about issues that are grounded in social justice and women have been centered in that movement… are family issues, are issues for our sons, our daughters, our mothers”.
We live in a diverse world, where by culture migrate and interact with each other. There are benefits to it such as sharing of traditions and interacting with new surroundings but the deeper root if the problem is very evident in many situations. Wooldridge explains that less than thirty years ago, persons used to refer to themselves as simply “Americans” but now they are divide themselves as being: African-Americans, Korean-Americans etc. In other words, they do not hold allegiance to or loyalty as an American (2008), with this comes segregation among people and discrimination among culture and their practices. In the novels that were discussed many themes are prominent and some were even common within the each other. Common themes to be explored within this paper will be flight and transformation of characters, Milkman and Caridad; and Feminism and entrapment of Hagar and Sofi.
We encounter the Dead family coming from a past of hardship and the struggle for success they had to endure to get to the point in which they are. Macon, having his father die at a young age had to learn to take care of himself and become the man is now. Macon Jr. “Milkman”, on the other hand, had everything given to him …show more content…
Feminism and the entrapment that they experience is outstands vibrantly with the Ana Castillo’s novel, mainly because the main characters are all females living in New Mexico. Ana Castillo goes on to discuss that apart from feminism itself, they like to call it: Xicanisma, Chicana Feminism. “Xicanisma is a framework that helps us think about issues that are grounded in social justice and women have been centered in that movement… are family issues, are issues for our sons, our daughters, our mothers”.