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In “Legal Alien” by Pat Mora, the speaker describes how her life is while being a part of two cultures, Mexican and American. Through the use of repetition, symbols, and diction, the speaker presents to the reader the idea that an individual is responsible for supporting herself. The speaker uses lines one through seven to introduce herself and being Mexican and American, describing how she can slip from English to Spanish any time she needs to. However, the first line is the most significant line

opinions on others culture as well as our own.The way each individual is raised changes their perspective on the world, on each other, and ourselves. In the poem, "Legal Alien" by Pat Mora, the poem shows how others can see you compared on how you see yourself. "An American to Mexicans a Mexican to Americans." (Pat Mora).As this quote explains you can see yourself as a Mexican American but others will just see you as Mexican. Based on the fact that you dress, speak and act a certain way. As well as

In the speech “The Leader in the Mirror” Pat Mora uses the poem “Immigrants” a poem she had written previously. It grabs the reader's attention right off the bat. It is believed that this poem in particular is used to encourage people, including the audience of this speech, to remember their family history. And to show the struggles their family had when they moved to the United States. Mora chose this poem to show the family stories that were lost when people immigrated and what those families gave

In “ Legal Alien”, Pat Mora uses metaphor, diction, conflict to express people who are discriminated against have to mask who they are in order to not feel alienated. Firstly, Pat Mora uses Metaphor to express the struggle of being from mixed culture from everyone else. Pat Mora expresses the emotion of being alienated when she writes “sliding back and forth / between the fringes of both worlds ( 17-18)”.Pat Mora is comparing the speaker as a door fringe, because the speaker feels like they don't

identity must be kept secrete. An advantage of a country like Saudi Arabia is the control the leaders have over what is known and not known. The precautions taken were extensive, they hid him from view. McCoy never realized how extensive the touch of the Mora Brothers. First they built his alibi having his credentials and passport moved to a similar looking white male (all American Caucasian males look the same in Europe and the Far East). All they needed was someone who fit a close enough description

daily lives. But this support and positive attitude that often comes with identity can be reversed by people who use these cultural identities to generalize and oppress groups of people as shown in these two pieces of literature. “Immigrants”, by Pat Mora, is a poem that tells the story of multicultural parents that bring their children to the U.S. in the hopes that they will become proper Americans so they will be accepted.. The other piece, “By Any Other Name”, is a memoir by Santha Rama Rau and

I enjoy reading poetry, one poem that I just read was by Pat Mora called”Immigrants.” Pat Writes poetry, and children’s literature. According to wikedia, “she is opposed to American monoculture, and is concerned with preserving the Mexican American culture. This is reflected in much of her writings’. The author of the poem wants to preserve her cultural heritage as well as embracing being an American. While reading her biography, I could see the reflection of this in this poem. How does one feel

token sliding back and forth” (lines 16-17). Pat Mora is comparing herself to token because the token has two sides between heads and tails. Likely, head she go back to America, tails she go to Mexican. Then she implies that she also has two sides like a token because she is Mexican-American. She is not belong of two society, she can go back and forth between two places but she is not unexpected by people in two societies.

people and the world because of how uncertain they are of their culture and their own personal and past experiences. One way I see that defines a person’s culture is how certain, or uncertain, they are of their culture. In Legal Alien, the author, Pat Mora, is Mexican-American, but isn’t sure which culture she identifies with the

Curanderos by Rodolfo Anaya and Pat Mora A curandero is a Mexican-American folk healer that heals physical, mental, and spiritual illnesses. The folk healer uses prayer, faith, and herbal remedies to heal. People associate repeated healing with healthy relationships between people, culture, and the environment. Mora and Anaya portray the curandera in different and similar ways. The literary works consist of common characteristics and qualities that the curanderos possess irrespective of the different