Frida Kahlo's Two Ways To Belong In America

In this piece from the text it reveals that the author is trying to show how her and her sister have the same background; coming from the same place; but they have yet still gone their separate ways. This piece of evidence supports the idea that a person’s culture affects them differently depending on the person because, the evidence

    Many people see the world and others differently. Just like the two sisters in “Everyday Use”, the two sisters in “Two Ways to Belong in America”, and the father in the letter/short essay “An Indian Father's Plea”. All these people have different past and things they’re going through. The two sisters in “Two Ways To Belong In America” both have their different stories from their past, one likes America the other does not because they betrayed her. Next, the father from “An Indian Father’s Plea” sees America differently because the school was labeled his kid a “slow learner” which made him upset. In addition, the two sisters from “ Everyday Use” argue about a quilt in which they both view differently

In “How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents” by Julia Alvarez, It’s shown how being engulfed into a new culture can cause people to struggle with keeping their own culture alive since they are around so many people that are living a different culture. Even though there are so many different races and religions in America, we all as Americans grew up here and know how Americans live, therefore, it can be tough for a different culture to live out their own ways in such a mixed country. It’s impossible to adjust to a culture without changing and being exposed to cultural discrimination. At the beginning of the book Yolanda is a grown woman and visiting her family in the Dominican.

Is it better to settle with what you already have and know or branch out and strive for comfort elsewhere? This is the ongoing debate between sisters, Dee (Wangero) and Maggie in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and sisters Bharati and Mira in Bharati Mukherjee’s “Two Ways to Belong in America”. In “Everyday Use” Maggie is a soft spoken homebody who has never found interest in straying from her mother while Dee on the other hand has moved on in life and uses her past as an image to prove how far she has made it in life, she even changed her birth name to cut all ties with her past. In “Two Ways to Belong in America” Bharati and Mira are Indian immigrants who both came to America with intentions of keeping their Indian heritage, but over time Bharati faded from her culture while Mira kept true. Although Maggie and Mira decided to stick to their roots, Dee and Bharati chose to immerse themselves in a new culture.

She didn't understand the minds of her employer as they told her that she needed to “wait till she was worth any money” because she had only been in America for a month. She thought she had finally earned her wages. She put her heart on her sleeve and she was let down, she really believed that she was finally going to be worth something in this new land. Her trust in working with “Americans” was completely vanished. “Now rejecting false friendships from higher-ups in America, I turned back to the Ghetto.

In both artworks, conflict between cultures can be seen through symbolism. In Frida Kahlo’s Self Portrait: On the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States symbolism can be seen by the boundary stone on which she stands. The boundary stone is connected directly to a machine on the U.S. side by a cord. The machine on the U.S. side is also shown to have a cord that connects to the roots of the plants on the Mexico side of the painting. What can be inferred through this visual is that Frida Kahlo is powered by both the U.S. and Mexico, but her roots are in Mexico. Frida also has added a flag on the right side of the painting to represent the U.S. and she is holding a flag with the Mexican

“Two Ways to Belong in America” is an essay written by Bharati Mukherjee and is about two sisters who have very different experiences living in America as immigrants. According to the author, to two ways immigrants can belong in America is to become a legal immigrant like her sister Mira, or to become a US citizen. Mukherjee states that she “celebrates” the word “mongrelization” when people apply it to her books in order to emphasize the cultural fusion between her book and the people who read them. The speaker states that her sister Mira feels “used” from America because for 30 years she spent her life being a productive member of american society by being a preschool teacher, obeying our laws, and paying her taxes for her employer to ultimately

The perception of life through someone else’s eyes can alter one’s appreciation toward that particular lifestyle. Culture is perceived differently depending on the type of environment in which we grow accustomed to. It can also range from the type of location in which we live in. For instance, someone living in a different state would have a different perception of the way we do things compared to their ways. In the essay “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli,” by Adam Gopnik, the view on life is seen differently when viewed in Gopnik’s perception. However, this perception of life changes when viewed in a different point of view. Gopnik’s perception of life

In the personal essay, “Two Ways to Belong in America,” by Bharati Mukherjee, there are two different cultural views between sisters, Bharati and Mira. Bharati and Mira grew up in India, but both moved to America. The sisters have the same cultural background, but have different cultural views now. They have different views on the current debate over the status of immigrants. They both have lived in the United States for 35 years. Bharati married someone from Canada, Mira married an Indian student. “In Iowa City in 1963, I married a fellow student, an American of Canadian percentage,” both Bharati and Mira married fellow students. (Mukherjee 70) “We dressed alike, in saris,” Bharati and Mira used to dress alike, but Bharati changed the way she dressed, Mira did not.

Traditions, beliefs, and family structure vary from culture to culture or even person to person. In the short story “Two ways to Belong in America” is about two sisters from India and their individual perspectives on culture, beliefs and traditions in India and America.

Mukherjee goes into detail how she and her sister were alike when they left India together, and how different they live their lives in America. Mukherjee sister Mira stayed more traditional by marrying an India and holding onto her Indian citizenship in hopes of going back home after retirement. Mukherjee marries an American and adapted

Culture gives a person a change of perspective toward people and the world, in “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee, It talks about her and her sister’s views of the current immigrant issues. Her sister Mira is influenced by her Indian culture so she views America different from her sister and still follows Indian traditions. Therefore Mira dresses casual Indian apparel such as a Sari and married an Indian man chosen by her father. When Mira gets older and retires she’s going to return to India, furthermore she does not want to lose her citizenship and ties to India just to stay in America for a little bit. Her plan was to come to America to work on her study of child psychology and after that return to India.

”Image in a self portrait generally communicates to the viewer information about the identity, character, environment, feelings and interests of the artist.” In the case if “Between the Borderline of Mexico and The United States” Frida Kahlo expresses her feeling that she holds towards hr alien environment, and her cultural identity. This will now be proven through analyzing the portrait to prove the above quote.

Two Ways to Belong in America by Bharati Mukherjee is a personal essay about two immigrant sisters named Bharati and Mira, moving to the United States to work for around 35 years. Despite differences in personalities and perspectives, the two sisters love each other and get along quite well. Both share the same birthplace and culture background, however one admires wearing jeans, the other clings onto her sari. As it is mentioned in the essay in paragraph 4 and 6, Mira decided to stay true to here culture and marry an Indian student, and Bharati stepped further from traditions and married an American, “Mira married an Indian student in 1962” and “I married a fellow student, an

Frida Kahlo is a world-renowned Mexican painter known for her shocking self-portaits filled with painful imagery. Her artwork was seen by many as surrealist and socialist, but she refused the labels put on herself. Until today, her works have been able to exude the same playful and wild feel as before (Fisher n.p). Her legacy as a painter has attracted prominent people like Madonna who has confessed her admiration for the painter. Not only that but fashion designers are frequently inspired by her iconic Tijuana dresses while her paintings have been priced at more than three million dollars (Bauer 115).