The Book Of Unknown America Analysis

Franz Boas’s who is regarded as the father of anthropology and the founding chair of the study at Columbia University is one whose illustrious career and struggles have left a lasting impact on the field. Boas’s life long projects dealing with immigrant populations and their environments and his avocation of human rights are noble and virtuous qualities all anthropologists should hold near and dear.

A dream can push people into the upper level, but dreams do not always come true. The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez is about immigrants who move to America. This is a book of the story collection; also, it combines different emotions, especially love and guilt. Alma loves her daughter, Maribel, more than anything else like every parent does, so Maribel is the only reason they are in America. Alma does as much as she can to Maribel. Although Alma is a newcomer to America, she becomes stronger because of her daughter.

In Junot Diaz’s short story “Wildwood,” many may argue that Lola’s mother Belicia deserved admiration for her subconscious overprotection and love for Lola that she portrays in an uncaring, despicable manner and especially because of her strong, independent fight against breast cancer. However, I think that Lola’s mother was unadmirable due to her lack of support, her weak role as a mother, and primarily because of her constant verbal and physical abuse that she bestowed upon her children.

Cristina Henriquez’, The Book of Unknown Americans, folows the story of a family of immigants adjusting to their new life in the United States of America. The Rivera family finds themselves living within a comunity of other immigrants from all over South America also hoping to find a better life in a new country. This book explores the hardships and injustices each character faces while in their home country as well as withina foreign one, the United States. Themes of community, identity, globalization, and migration are prevalent throughout the book, but one that stood out most was belonging. In each chacters viewpoint, Henriquez explores their feelings of the yearning they have to belong in a community so different than the one that they are used to.

The poem America by Claude McKay is on its surface a poem combining what America should be and what this country stands for, with what it actually is, and the attitude it projects amongst the people. Mckay uses the form of poetry to express how he, as a Jamaican immigrant, feels about America. He characterizes the bittersweet relationship between striving for the American dream, and being denied that dream due to racism. While the America we are meant to see is a beautiful land of opportunity, McKay see’s as an ugly, flawed, system that crushes the hopes and dreams of the African-American people.

In this poem, America by Tony Hoagland, tells about the way people in America live. Also comparing America to a prison. And tells us the lifestyle we live in America. Which is more important for society to have money in your pocket is more important than anything else. One of the real society is consumerism. Furthermore, try to express that consumerism and big business are robbing Americans. Another thing is that you are a materialist qualify and now a day for what you have. Not by human quality and that affects society. It comments on the value system that puts money ahead of everything and yet does not bring happiness. The poem allows to see the unnecessary amount of consuming in America.

Elva’s compares her feelings of not belonging in the Anglo society with the old beggar woman inside the doors of a Mexican church: “I have felt like her before, as if I want to be in a place, but I don’t know if I belong. A beggar in a room full of

In Ralph Ellison's "What America Would Be Like Without Blacks" The author describes and analyzes the idea of “purging” African Americans from north America. To support this the author describes how they became deeply ingrained in “white “American culture in a short period of time. They began to influence aspects of society such as speech, music and dance. These changes to society where readily adopted without true origin being noticed. The authors work can be described as opinionated description, because it lacks the objectivism of most expository writing. the author fully describes the idea and he gives support information, but within his word choice it’s clear to the reader that the other has a very strong opinion on the black purge.

There is a lot that goes into making this country work. Whether it be the coal that makes electricity to power our lights, to the cowboys who herd the cattle that becomes the beef that we eat regularly, there’s more to America than just big business. But we as Americans rarely think about these jobs, let alone respect them. Hidden America written by Jeanne Marie Laskas shines a light on these underappreciated jobs, and points out that these jobs are imperative to our economy, and deserve more respect than they receive.

As a young woman, Denver is lonely and terrified. She knows that, "her mother had secrets -- things she wouldn't tell; things she halfway told" (38). These secrets, she understands, are

By 1600, England’s feudal system was nearing extinction, as a new family (Tudor’s) came to power and wanted support from the middleclass and the establishment of new liberties for Englishman (i.e. trial by jury and no arrest without a warrant), which resulted in a large amount of local and self initiative to prosper in the community: yet many beggars now existed, culminating in an increased need for colonial expansion both for personal prosperity and more space for the existing population.

In the column Back to Mencken’s America (2016), Jonah Goldberg, popular columnist writer of the Los Angeles Times, argues that “both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are unworthy and unqualified to be president” and that we should return to “American politics” that H.L. Mencken and Albert J. Nock established during the 20th century. Goldberg enlightens this urge of return by juxtaposing America today to it’s past (“America looks very different from Mencken and Nock’s era”), by contrasting the different people at fault (“you’re not just wrong, you’re a bigot”), and by comparing the competition of politics (“enemy defined as anyone who doesn’t agree”). Using examples from actual events (“registered Democrat murdered 49 Americans at a gay nightclub”),

The title of Philip Roth’s novel, Goodbye, Columbus, is symbolic of the journey one must take to define one’s individuality or discover one’s life purpose. Superficially, the title is a reference to the ending lyrics of Ron’s senior yearbook album as well as the physical location of Ohio State University in which Ron Patimkin graduated from. With closer analysis, it becomes evident that the title extends to a much deeper meaning of the overall theme of self-examination and self-identity for the protagonist, Neil Klugman. The title, Goodbye, Columbus, primarily acts as an essential metaphor between the expedition Christopher Columbus takes in search of a westward route to India and the life journey Neil embarks upon to discover his identity both in terms of his socioeconomic status and Jewish heritage. The title both clarifies and foreshadows the fate Neil ultimately realizes as he pursues a relationship with Brenda Patimkin.

Proulx’s short story presents Alma as a woman who is submissive and who lacks force in pursuing her objectives. Lee, on the contrary, offers us a more open Alma, a woman who is capable of manipulating her husband, and who does so in ways she deems reasonable when necessary. The result that the viewer is the viewer is provided a more empowered female character, one who is liberated from her victimization as a woman. Proulx depicts Alma as one who fulfills the traditional role of a woman, raising children and providing for them, the best possible future—a role with seeming ease.

Industrialization and modernization have many advantages to the modern society. In the novel Arcadian America by Aaron Sachs, the author covers many significant themes such as industrialization, slavery, modernization, urbanization, and women’s rights. Sachs jiggles with different themes and ideas but his main focus is Industrialization and the Arcadian land. Due to immigration and the introduction of new ideas America became heavily industrialized. America as a country has moved away from what is known as a tradition to many crucial groups: celebrating nature. People took another path, they did not appreciate the simple and non-materialistic lifestyle. Although industrialization and modernization have caused many people to walk away from nature, it helped bring many people closer to nature by providing them with shorter, more convenient transportation and safer travel routes.