Summary Of Grandmother By Gary Soto

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Love is sightless. It does not care about your race, color, or culture. Today more and more people are marrying someone from a different country, with different religion and a culture. Culture is a strong part of people’s lives. For this reason, most people stick together only with those who share the same culture as them. That is exactly what one of an American poet, novelist, and memoirist Gary Soto’s grandmother told him to do so. Not only his grandmother wanted him to marry to a Mexican girl but also his mother.
My mother wanted me to marry someone of my own social class- a poor girl (Like Mexicans 392). Instead, Soto married to a Japanese woman and he knew that she is the one. However, he still has to deal with the fact that his family

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