America: The Bigger The Better It’s Christmas day and Alex Tizon goes to open your first gift; he automatically picks the biggest present to open first because he’s been taught his whole life that bigger is better. Almost all Americans have the philosophy that bigger is better because we live in a world where everything needs to be bigger: our phones, meals, computers, watches, cars, and everything else. It’s not just our appliances though, Alex Tizon captures this in his piece “Land of The Giants”. The writing is about Tizon and his family’s hardships of attempting to become a giant in the land of giants while being a Filipino immigrant in America. In “The Land of Giants” by Alex Tizon, Tizon strongly utilizes emotional appeal in order to
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He uses childhood stories that compare his family and other Americans. One day Tizon and his father were walking into a hardware store and three Americans got in their way, Tizon compares this instance to a tv show that he and his family watched that he describes as, “a science fiction series about a space crew marooned on a planet of gargantuan humans” (647). This tv show stands out to Tizon because that he sees himself in the space crew due to the fact that he and his family are short and new to a place that they do not know and sees Americans as the gargantuan humans because he and his family have come over into their world. When the three Americans stopped Tizon and his father, he sees them as manhandling them as he later describes the humans in the tv show doing, “the crew members were always being picked up by enormous hands and toyed with” (647). Also, he brings up a childhood story that compares the way his family ate and the way his American friend did, “ A separate slab of meat just for me” (647). Tizon states that a single slab would feed his family where as he alone was given a single slab at his American friend’s household. Seeing that the gargantuan humans get their own piece of meat gives Tizon the impression of how different he and his American peers actually
He uses childhood stories that compare his family and other Americans. One day Tizon and his father were walking into a hardware store and three Americans got in their way, Tizon compares this instance to a tv show that he and his family watched that he describes as, “a science fiction series about a space crew marooned on a planet of gargantuan humans” (647). This tv show stands out to Tizon because that he sees himself in the space crew due to the fact that he and his family are short and new to a place that they do not know and sees Americans as the gargantuan humans because he and his family have come over into their world. When the three Americans stopped Tizon and his father, he sees them as manhandling them as he later describes the humans in the tv show doing, “the crew members were always being picked up by enormous hands and toyed with” (647). Also, he brings up a childhood story that compares the way his family ate and the way his American friend did, “ A separate slab of meat just for me” (647). Tizon states that a single slab would feed his family where as he alone was given a single slab at his American friend’s household. Seeing that the gargantuan humans get their own piece of meat gives Tizon the impression of how different he and his American peers actually