Short Story Of Jennifer Landenhauer

Where are you from? It is a simple question yet; it is difficult to answer as an immigrant who has lived in multiple places. I was born in Lagos, Nigeria. A few years after my birth, my dad's job required my family to move to the United States. My family first "settled" down in Walnut Creek, California; however, less than a year later, we moved down to Houston where just like in California, we lived for less than a year before being catapulted to the beautiful yet cold country to the north of the border: Canada. After living in so many places and being exposed to many different societies, I never found a culture that I fully identified with. Instead, I now identify as not only a first generation Nigerian immigrant but also as a global citizen.

Although one’s racial and ethnic identities are predetermined due to genetics, attachment to a particular culture is not a birthright; one has to accept and understand the community in order to fully identify with it. When Robert Chang writes “one is not born Asian American, one becomes one”, he means just that. In Chang’s opinion, having Asian blood and living on American soil is not sufficient to call oneself Asian American, but the connection to the community allows one claim to the title.

In this short story “Eleven”, Sandra Cisneros tells a story about a little girl named Rachel,

However, many can argue that someone’s identity is not always shaped because of their surrounding environment, which is believable to an extent. For example, a person could go to church for their whole childhood, but as they grown up they could interpret religion in a whole different way or not be religious in any way . If it was had just been based off their culture, then they would still be religious forever. Many people around the world may be trapped within their own culture like in the

“...Successes are far more likely to come from wealthier families.” This quote from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell goes hand in hand with another controversial quote in the same book. “Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from.” Every human comes from some background, we all have parents and a birth-town, as well as an income we grew up living off of. Yet do these background have a significant influence on the course of our lives?

Nancy Morgan wedded Benjamin Hart, and moved with her significant other to northern Georgia. She was an oppressive spouse. Numerous recalled that she, as opposed to her better half, ran the Hart family unit, which in the long run included six children and two girls.

Secondly, the innocent part plays a key role in not seeing much of the world. Barton was much older with more of an understanding on how the world worked. For all the readers know this might have been her first time ever being into trouble. Barton fought the idea of killing Marilyn in his head. He tried to call and get the protocol changed, but in the end failed dramatically when he was turned down.

In the short story, "Eleven," by Sandra Cisnernos, Cisneros describes the birthday of Rachel, an eleven year-old who was humiliated on her birthday. Her teacher, Mrs. Price, claimed that an old sweater belonged to her, when in reality, it was Sylvia Saldivar's who ironically claimed it belonged to Rachel. Rachel was left crying and depressed the rest of the day, when she was commanded to wear it. Cisneros best characterizes Rachel through her well use of her diction,imagery, and repetition.

my ASU’s and stood in front of Drill Sergeant Himes for the last time. He handed me the

Where we are from, our own personal history contributes to who we are. Each of our own stories are unique and make up a part of ourselves. We all have a knowledge of our own, customs, traditions, a family, and a history.

Whilst if I was in China, I would be focused on education, and preparing for my future job, and then focusing on how I am going to live the rest of my life. In relation, when I was younger, I was taken to a private preschool and Kindergarten, in hopes that I am able to build a stronger foundation for when I enter the first grade. As I grew older, and first grade came near, my family moved from one city to another to enroll me in a better elementary school. From this, part of my educational background grew. Throughout the years, we would fly to China to visit family and I was then exposed to the different cultures and was able to compare the living standards and cultural aspects between the United States and China. Consequently, my mom’s side is Tai-Shan and my dad’s side is Shanghainese. On my mom’s side, I have ancestors from Guangzhou, Tai-Shan, Beijing, and Hong Kong. On my dad’s side, I have ancestors from Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong as well. I know that these cities are all within China and have rigorous living conditions, intense education systems, and a place where money is everything. From this, I can say that this does influence my identity, as I am exposed to these cultures and ideas quite often. Being Chinese, and the first generation to be here in the United States, my parents are still quite traditional. Through that, the idea of who I am is influenced and altered, because there are ideas that I

Humans have always had an inherent tendency to view themselves as morally superior and intelligent creatures. In thinking highly of themselves, they tend to dismiss the qualities of other species and fail to appreciate the relative harmony of the natural world. This ignorance becomes apparent in many of Clarice Lispector’s short stories, especially in that of the collection Family Ties. The motif of animals recurs multiple times in these short stories, introducing the message that animals live a more authentic way of life than humans by transcending the linguistic and emotional barriers that constrain humanity. To convey this central theme, Lispector uses animals as symbols, foils to demonstrate the flaws in society, and as a contrast between

As an immigrant from another country, I personally would agree with the fact that there are two sides of me. Spending half of my life in the Philippines and the other half in the United States, my family, home, and community in both of these countries has shaped my life equally. These two different environments definitely clash at times, but they also share many similarities. Very early in my life, my parents had to work overseas in Saudi Arabia and left me and my sister in the Philippines with my grandmother, aunt and uncle, and their children. For this reason, I did not have a normal relationship with my parents for the first half of my life. It’s not that they never visited or not love me, but it was difficult for my 3 or 4-year-old self

An abundance of people thinks where we are from, or how much money we have are determining who we are. The real answer is not answered by just one question. It is composed by diverse questions and events. They all form who we are. One of those questions involves relationships. Relationships determine who we are. Situated on the balance of the relationship, listening and being honest and how arguing is handled.

Everyday I am on a constant race to discover who I am as an individual. I am fighting this battle whether I choose to acknowledge it or not. Donald Hernandez has written in his book Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance; he talks about major key points, but the most important one state “Third, because life chances differ greatly according to race and ethnicity in the United States, and because of the race and ethnic composition of immigrants to this country has shifted markedly during recent decades,” (3). That is true trying to be one thing is very hard in USA society has an effect of how you may become as the individual. If I were in another country they would just see as an American and nothing else, but the place that I was born and raised they see me as what my parents are Nigerians. I am not American because my parents are from Nigeria; this has been a very constant thing, because of several definitions of what it