Coming to a new country is an excitement for some but for others it is a huge change. Everything is new from what someone is used to seeing and it might feel like they stand out in society. Most individuals would try to change their culture and adopt a new one so that they have a sense of belonging in society. An example of this is shown in the story “Sixty-Nine Cents” written in 2007 by Gary Shteyngart. The author used different symbols to express his ways of leaving the Russian culture and adopting the American culture. Which is “go to Florida, where I understood that our nation’s best and brightest had built themselves a sandy, vice-filled paradise; have a girl, perfectly native born, tell me that she liked me in some way; and eat all my meals at McDonalds.” (Sixty-Nine Cents)
One of the symbols that Shteyngart uses to represent his ways of adopting the American culture is going to Florida, which represents wealth. Shteyngart is a Russian immigrant living in the United States with his family. Him and …show more content…
It is common that a fourteen year old boy is interested in impressing girls but Shteyngart theory was that maybe having an American girlfriend would make him feel more part of the culture that he wants to be in. He states that “to walk up to one of those girls and say something so casual required a deep rootedness to the hot sand beneath me, a historical presence thicker than the green card embossed with my thumbprint and freckled face.”(Sixty-Nine Cents) The metaphor is saying that he wished to simply plant himself in the hot sand so that he can have thicker roots. Instead of having a thin card to show that he just started to belong in the American culture. Shteyngart wished that his roots was thicker than the green card that has a picture of him with his thumb prints so that he can go up to them and say “oh hi there” without an
One of the symbols that Shteyngart uses to represent his ways of adopting the American culture is going to Florida, which represents wealth. Shteyngart is a Russian immigrant living in the United States with his family. Him and …show more content…
It is common that a fourteen year old boy is interested in impressing girls but Shteyngart theory was that maybe having an American girlfriend would make him feel more part of the culture that he wants to be in. He states that “to walk up to one of those girls and say something so casual required a deep rootedness to the hot sand beneath me, a historical presence thicker than the green card embossed with my thumbprint and freckled face.”(Sixty-Nine Cents) The metaphor is saying that he wished to simply plant himself in the hot sand so that he can have thicker roots. Instead of having a thin card to show that he just started to belong in the American culture. Shteyngart wished that his roots was thicker than the green card that has a picture of him with his thumb prints so that he can go up to them and say “oh hi there” without an