As Abdul Katam once said “Let us sacrifice our today so our children can have a
Better tomorrow”. In “Trail of My Tears” a family struggles and makes sacrifice to have a better life as US citizens. Sun uses flashbacks to help us understand what they went through. The author uses these to show how you need to appreciate what you have.
Sun establishes a societal conflict by showing us what their family went through. This conflict occurs many times in this piece. For example when they found out they had to move back to Guatemala, “I felt like my world was tearing apart.”(3). This shows how everything was changing in a negative way because they were being taken away from their home in California. Another example when the narrator says “Mom
Better tomorrow”. In “Trail of My Tears” a family struggles and makes sacrifice to have a better life as US citizens. Sun uses flashbacks to help us understand what they went through. The author uses these to show how you need to appreciate what you have.
Sun establishes a societal conflict by showing us what their family went through. This conflict occurs many times in this piece. For example when they found out they had to move back to Guatemala, “I felt like my world was tearing apart.”(3). This shows how everything was changing in a negative way because they were being taken away from their home in California. Another example when the narrator says “Mom