An American Family

language. In Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family by Yoshiko Uchida, many emotional and exciting events take place, and with the use of literary devices and figurative language, these scenes could have been more interesting and intense. I don’t believe this author has properly utilized these tools to enhance her writing, and in this essay, I will explain why. This autobiography recounts the life of Yoshiko Uchida, a Japanese-American with first-generation Japanese…

films. Mood and surroundings can have an affect on the way one comprehends films since they allow individuals to influence others, to be open-minded, and to create bonds. In the literary piece, Hooverville: Little Miss Sunshine Lights into the American Family, Taylor writes about her experience viewing Little Miss Sunshine in a crowded theater, after observing boring movies previous to that particular one. She states that the movie, Little Miss Sunshine, “… and though the movie doesn’t hold up…

greater number of children, and the shape of the colonial family structure formed. American society during the 1760s was heavily impacted by religion, featured…

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry tells us a story about a struggling black family dealing with a move during the 1950s in Chicago. Lorraine Hansberry pinpoints the struggles this family was facing due to race, gender, and class. Being an African American family in the 1950s went through many hardships and they were segregated based on their economic standing. Even today we still face many problems with poverty . The problems of poverty and economic stature depicted in this story…

making ends meet while trying to allow themselves some luxuries. In the 1990s, there was more of a demand to rip away the venire of the American Dream to show what it truly means to be an American family because many families were dealing with different issues. Living paycheck to paycheck wasn’t the norm and struggling wasn’t a widespread reality for most families. As Kurt Andersen writes in his New York Times article “The Best Decade Ever? The 1990’s, Obviously.” The ‘90’s were a decade of…

What I can tell and hear is that this family speaks Spanish. I am assuming either they are a Hispanic family from South America or from Spain. Being from a Mexican background, I can honestly tell you, just by looking at this family, that they are not from South America. People from Spain are a lot taller and with lighter skin color than the average Mexican person. To gain a better understanding…

The door of communication is always closed in Lees’ family. Marilyn has never mentioned her mother’s prejudice towards James, and James does want to talk about his family’s history because he feels shame that he was raised in a Chinese immigrant family in the white American society. They do not often express personal ideas and feeling to each other. For example, the miscommunication happens between Marilyn and James. Instead of sharing her thought that she wants pursue the career as a doctor…

that person because they wanted people to think that their life was better than what it actually was. When you take a closer look, ask questions, and get the backstory you realize the truth. They aren’t friends anymore, she doesn’t have the perfect family we all want, and she isn’t having the best college experience we all wish for. That’s what social media does it creates an image of our fakes selves. You don’t see what goes on behind the scenes. The takeaway from this is there’s always a…

the Great Depression. Another drama, The Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, also shows the hardships that money can lead to. This drama presents the life of a lower class African American family, struggling to get through life in the late fifties. By comparing the initial financial situation of both families, how the men of the house chose to handle these situations…

be with their family and earn enough to support herself and her child. Flor works two jobs, within the local Latin community, while her daughter cares for herself much like a latch key child. When the child enters her teen years Flor decides that her daughter, Christina, would benefit from more supervision and sets out to obtain a job as a maid in the home of an American family that will pay as much as her two jobs have. The home of her new employer is comprised of a nuclear family which…