Summary Of The F Word By Firoozeh Dumas

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“My Name” by Sandra Cisneros is a short excerpt from her book The House on Mango Street (1984). In this excerpt, Cisneros narrator is a girl named Esperanza, who is telling us that her name reminds her of a lot of negatives things, including who she inherited it from. Esperanza is trying to convince us that her name is a terrible name, which is built up of negativity and bad history. She state that she was named after her great-grandmother, who was born in the Chinese year of the horse, which they have in common, and is well known for her wild customs which lead to her feeling sad and lonely all her life. Esperanza specifies that her name sound beautiful among Spanish speakers, but to non-Spanish speakers her name is pronoun funny “as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth” she says. She indicated that she would like to baptize herself under a new

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The events in Dumas’ flashbacks prove stereotypical behavior and close-mindedness of Americans hinder assimilation. Dumas tells the reader of the difficulty she has while trying to get a job due to her name. “Even though I had graduated with honors from UC– Berkeley, I couldn’t get a single interview... After three months of rejections, I added “Julie”

After years of being called by the wrong name, Firoozeh finally decided to give herself an American name. She went by the first name of Julie. This disguise name made her complacent. Going to school with a “normal” name made her life infinitely simpler and more enjoyable. For a while, Dumas was comfortable with her new name; her peers finally accepted her as an American. All was fine until she heard negative comments about “those damn iranians.” Her American name disguised her so well that her peers had no clue about her ethnic identity. This gave her the ability to see right through people without them having the knowledge of who she really was. Throughout her college years she decided to go back to her original birth name. As soon as she changed her name, she started reliving her life as an iranian immigrant. Sh applied to jobs and could not manage to get a single interview, despite the fact she graduated from UC Berkeley. One look at her name and interviewers bame their decision and skipped on to the next resume. Dumas decided to reapplied to the same jobs with her American name and just as she predicted, the job offers started coming in. She compared this situation to having an evil twin and having to play both roles on a soap opera, but was struggling to play both roles and could not complain to the screenwriter because it was her own fault for her chastising herself by hiding behind an average American

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Her essay is aimed at Middle Americans or other immigrants living in the country who face the same issue as her. Having a name that is uncommon and hard to pronounce, can be a challenge for the peers of those with the names. The claim is not being made toward the easy to pronounce Bill’s, Susan’s, and Richard’s. The claim is also not aimed at professionals or people of

Then she had gone and had the beautiful named, Joy, changed without telling her mother until after she had done it. Her legal name was Hulga.”

She states that changing her name will make transitioning into American schools, making friends, and even possible job prospects will all become easier, people will be willing to accommodate her without such a foreign sounding name.

Many authors use irony to make their writings more diverse, as well as to intensify the literary elements in the story. Shirley Jackson, writer of “The Lottery”, does this in her stories in order to leave the reader in suspense and confusion with her use of situational irony. She also uses dramatic irony to give the story a grotesque twist and to cause the reader more confusion about the characters’ morals. Verbal irony is used to intensify characterization as well as give the reader an insight into the true beliefs of those in the village. The use of irony in all three forms throughout the story adds an intensity to the development of many literary elements throughout the story.

In the story, Funny in Farsi, the author Firoozeh informs the reader about her previous wars that she has gone through. The author relates to her to her internal conflict that she goes through during her lifetime.In the beginning of the story the author tells the reader about her struggle with her name and how people kept on miss pronouncing it. Firoozeh then decides to “...chose the name “Julie”...”(64) to help the people pronounce it with ease. She also changes her name to Julie, due to that fact that now people of the saw her as an American, and without the new name, “...[American] people would

O’Connor uses irony to bring humor to her story. For example, Crater says “I wouldn't give her up for nothing on earth” (O’Connor). What she meant was she wouldn’t trade her daughter for anything on earth, but what she really says is she’d trade her daughter for nothing at all. The irony is further shown when Crater does, in fact, give her daughter up for nothing. Shiftlet scammed her of her car and money, and her daughter is left at a diner. She wanted a good man for a son-in-law, but now she doesn’t even have a son-in-law. Another example of irony is when Shiftlet prays for God to clean the world of filth, but he himself is the filth he was asking God to clean.

The F Word by, Firoozeh Dumas, is about how ethnic people with hard or ethnic names can be mistreated and mispronounce. When she came to America many kids and teachers would mispronounce her name and they would sometimes shorten it to make it easier. In the fifth grade she wanted to change her name to be more American to be able to fit in. She changes her name to Julie which people actually remember. People and kids remembered her name and her life became simpler. Although people though she was American and not Irian some people would call bad name to those who are Irian. She went back to using her real name in college but once she graduated she was being rejected in jobs even though she graduated at UC-Berkeley with honors. When she changes