Siella Immigration Quotes

Sandra Cisneros’s short story “Never Marry a Mexican” deals heavily with the concept of myth in literature, more specifically the myth La Malinche, which focuses on women, and how their lives are spun in the shadows on men (Fitts). Myths help power some of the beliefs of entire cultures or civilizations. She gives the reader the mind of a Mexican-American woman who seems traitorous to her friends, family and people she is close to. This causes destruction in her path in the form of love, power, heartbreak, hatred, and an intent to do harm to another, which are themes of myth in literature. The unreliable narrator of this story was created in this story with the purpose to show her confusion and what coming from two completely different

In Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America, author Barbara Ehrenreich analyzes and explains her experiences during her endeavor into living and working in low-wage America. Her ultimate ambition for attempting to live in this lifestyle is to introduce the reader to the difficulties that those with low incomes face. In order to grasp the true experience of entering the low-wage workforce, Ehrenreich essentially abandons her real life, leaving almost everything behind and starting with nearly nothing. By the end of her journey, Ehrenreich wants to answer the question of whether or not a single woman with children would be able to survive while working in low-wage America. Throughout her venture, she discovers several injustices and obstacles that low-wage workers are confronted by.

The second job she holds down is with The Maids. This job entails a 7:30 - 3:30 work day at $6.65 an hour. This is the best paid and nicest looking maid job she encountered, and chooses to work there. She quickly finds out, however, the societal downfall of being a maid. Every house she goes to, the homeowners are rude, and often very ‘standoffish’. They seem to want no part of a maid, the class of workers that is ‘below all others’, in their eyes. "Were nothing to these people...nor are we much to anyone else," (100) one of her coworkers explained.

The students didn’t even want to march down the aisle with her during graduation, but Bessie did not care because all that mattered was getting a degree. Sadie, who was working as a teacher in the outskirts of Harlem, wanted to acquire a new job, but she knew that her race would hinder that from happening. Sadie remembered what her father had said once, “”you had to be better at what you did than any of your white competition" (5.18.2). She did just as that when she outsmarted the administration at one of the best schools in the city by not meeting face- to-face so that she would not be discriminated because of her skin. She got the job.

Walker use of this situation shows a bigger issue in African Americans families. According to Werlock, the issue is must “African Americans turn their back of their background and traditional family.” According to Cowart, Dee believes she has escaped the ghetto. In her mind, she has the right to act different from her mother and sister because now she is living at a higher standard than they are. Yet with this mindset, she is trapped with them mentally.

“Knowing great wealth, rather becoming pious and learned Jews”. That is the way, the Rabbi of Abraham Hersh Ashkenazi, predicts the life of his two children will be. To the dread of Abraham Hersh, that prophecy becomes true for both sons, but mostly for Simha Meir. Throughout the book, the reader is able to discern how Simha Meir goes through an evolution that allows him to escape the constraints of his Jewishness, becoming Max Ashkenazi, the king of Lodz. I.J.

She tackles the idea of discrimination and gives advice to her audience that she called “Over! Under! Through!” after the old Sesame Street film. Explained, it is to think about whether that person is in between you and your goal, and if they aren’t, then her advice is to leave it alone; if they are in your way, such as your boss, then her advice was to find someone around or above your boss who is not a misogynist, for there is no point arguing about it because it won’t change their opinion.

Why do many immigrants make the long and usually costly move to America? Is it the largely idolized notion that Americans are wealthier with better opportunities? Moreover, is the price some pay worth the risk? In Willa Cather’s My Ántonia, Ántonia faces struggles as a young child, including language barriers, poverty, harsh living conditions, and her beloved father’s death. However, as Ántonia grows into a woman, she must face struggles of a social nature, such as the division of social and economic classes, as well as social opprobrium. While immigration to America may open many doors for immigrants, it is equally fraught with obstacles. Likewise, Ántonia must face many adversities after her emigration from Bohemia to Nebraska, which

In the advertisement company a woman character (Peggy) is a wonderful writer, but is plagued by being a woman in the work place and she has to work harder and longer to receive a promotion. She notices that she is more accomplished than a man coworker who has the same job. The secretaries knew they were not wanted because the company needed secretary work, they were needed to be servants to their male coworkers by bringing them food and drinks. Through advertisements women were targets because a poll showed that women bought more than men. For example when the advertisement company was studying the thoughts of women and lipstick the men studying the women only put the attractive women’s ideas down and did not count the women’s ideas who were not as attractive as the other women in the study. At home women are supposed to be the perfect wife taking care of her perfect children, but Don’s wife does not actually do anything of the sort. She has a housekeeper who does everything for her, such as cook, clean, and take care of the children making sure they behave correctly. Since the housekeeper takes care of everything for Don’s wife, his wife is unhappy with nothing to do. She feels worthless and lonely. While her husband goes out and cheats on her routinely. (“Mad Men: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Class”.)

She felt as though she could do anything she wanted within the dominant culture, and since she was a part of it, she could also disparage it as she wished. Lawrence Blum says, “Whites in general cannot avoid benefitting from the historical legacy of racial discrimination and oppression. So unjust enrichment is almost never absent from the life situation of whites” (McIntosh, 1998).

Cofer tells of another incident where she felt treated unfairly by her background. Cofer claims throughout her life many people had not seen her as a normal hard working American. They saw a stereotype from movies of spicy hot-headed Latin women. She details incidents throughout her life of harassment in which she is comically assumed to be a simple Latin girl. “[A stranger] […] spotted me and as if struck by inspiration went down on his knees in the aisle. With both hands over his heart broke into an Irish tenor’s rendition of “Maria” from “West Side Story””. This exemplification is of racism but still contributes to the point of society not seeing them for who they really are and what they have done. Smith-yackel’s mother’s entire life story contributes to this point. Society and the government did not see her has worker, her offspring therefore did not earn the Social Security check. She argues that her mother worked much harder than others and yet because she did not work a “real” job she unfairly was not entitled to compensation. They presumed that she did not work, but in reality she had in fact worked much harder than

In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, a character that initially went by the name Dee has always been a very rude and selfish person. As a child, she would read to her mom and sister “without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks’ habits, whole lives up [them]”. She believed that her family’s life style kept them away from the world, telling them that “from the way you and Mama still live you’d never know it”. Dee believes her family to be stupid and behind the time, thinking that she is better than them because of her ability to leave the house and move on. While her education helped her get out into the world, it did not help her become a better daughter,sister, and person. Her selfish personality keeps her away from realizing where her success

Additionally, James reinforces the female gothic conventions by utilizing the supernatural to drive the Governess into madness. After her encounter with Peter’s ghost, the house’s “darkness and quietness close in” onto her while she “circles about the place” as the overwhelming feeling of curiosity consumes her (James 27). This sublime of the truth “heightening or setting up terrible things” that will occur at the Bly mansion (Burke 381). The pleasure of knowing of this hidden truth drives the protagonist to seek it out even though there may not be a “ultimate truth”. The Governess’s obsession of finding this “truth” worsens throughout the storyline that her imagination portrays this ideal image of heroism of herself. The Governess seems to have a habit of fantasying of an alter reality where she is

Without a college degree, it is very difficult to get a financially stable job. To get a college degree you need some sort of income to pay for your schooling. She did not have a degree and ended up working for 7 dollars an hour or less. The work was both stressful and degrading.

The mother, describes Dee as light skinned with nice hair and a full figure (486). She recounts Dee?s childhood and her appreciation of nice things. She was not the least upset when the family home burned to the ground while she was just a girl, ?Why don?t you do a dance around the ashes? I?d wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.? (486)