Compare and Contrast Analysis In her essay “Two Ways to Belong in America,” Bharati Mukerjee effectively employs structure and rhetorical devices to compare the experiences that she and her sister Mira share and contrast the perspectives they develop after immigrating to America. By listing the similarities and differences between herself and Mira, the narrator presents the two distinctive opinions that American immigrants possess about immigration restriction. Mira and the narrator are exact opposites on the issue, like fire and ice. On the one hand, Mira does not aspire to be an American citizen and is outraged at new immigration laws; however, the narrator embraces her American citizenship and accepts the new immigration laws. The narrator’s
