With A Little Help From My Friends Analysis

‘With a Little Help from my Friends” by Dumars Firoozeh, is a well written story about life of an iranian immigrant and changes she went through to adapt to our American culture. There was one quote from the story that really stood out to me. “They wanted to know more important things , such as camels. How many did we own back home? What did we feed them? Was it a bumpy ride?” (Firoozeh 90). This quote shows how Americans affect immigrants themselves, their families, and their relationship to their own communities. Americans can affect immigrants in many ways. One way being directly to one immigrant. Normally we treat the immigrants differently. Maybe by asking them different kinds of questions such as camels. In the story the author wrote “They wanted to know more important things such as camels. How many did we own back home? What did we feed them? Was it a bumpy ride?”(Firoozeh 90). This quote shows us that we judge them by where they are from. We think that if they are from Iran then …show more content…
“I try my best to be a worthy representative of my homeland,but, like a hollywood celebrity relentlessly pursued by paparazzi, I sometimes got tired of the questions.” (Firoozeh 91). This piece of the story showed how we affect their community because the kids made her a celebrity. Just because she is from somewhere else they gave her too much attention. They asked her way too many questions she got tired. This was another way that we affect immigrants. “With a Little Help from my Friends”, by Dumars Firoozeh, was a well written story about immigrants going through changes to adapt to our American culture.“They wanted to know more important things , such as camels. How many did we own back home? What did we feed them? Was it a bumpy ride?” (Firoozeh 90). This quote from the story shows how Americans affect immigrants by affecting themselves, their families, and their connection to their