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My Invented Country Analysis

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One can imagine that every country is different with their own set of beliefs. Chile and Kuwait are in total different parts of the world but they both have similarities. In Isabel Allende’s My Invented Country and Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home the authors focus on the road map of their childhood. Allende explains the basics of her culture, while Jarrar does too through the character of Nidali. Both women have seen and are aware that women do not have the same power as a male. Nidali gets hit from her father if she does not do well in education. As for Allende, she explains how men are machistas and the women are submissive. While Nidali is half-Egyptian and Palestine and Isabel is Chilean and I am Mexican American, we all share the same struggle …show more content…

The main reason she claims to love Chile is because of the stories her grandfather would tell her and her experience of travelling in the south (Allende 111). She explains about the war, and how it impacted the whole country. She was able to travel and get to experience the differences. In Chile she states how they do not talk the terms of “racism” rather they differ themselves according to the “class system” (Allende 34). She also states how the upper class in Chile is relatively white. No matter where one goes in the world it appears as the lighter the skin the more advantages you will have. Maybe it’s a biased believe or an actual discriminatory truth. She loves Chile but at the same time she realizes she is not completely home she is trying to find where home is for her. “In contrast with Europe, where long-haired hippies were a normal sight, student revolutions were brewing, and the sexual liberation was being celebrated, Chile was boring; once again I felt like a foreigner.” (Allende 130). The reason she feels like a foreigner and ends up feeling the way she does was because she got the chance to experience other countries besides Chile. If the war had not happened and she did not leave Chile at all she would feel like at home since she would not have any other

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