Dwight Okita, and Sandra Cisneros both establish the topic of American identity. American identity comes from merging cultures and the people within that culture. Okita's poem, American identity has more to do with how you experience culture than what your heritage is. Both texts show that cultural heritage and physical appearances do not determine what it means to be American. Dwight Okita and Sandra Cisneros both were greatly influenced by the American culture. Okita uses point of view to show that the speaker's friend thinks about her after the speaker has been given an order to relocate. Denise's conflict between characters is over their opinion of the United States.
In response to "Mericans", the first sign of American identity is the classification of relatives in the style of traditional American names such as "Auntie" and “Uncle". The next thing that is noticed is the young American identity, or childhood. This story takes place at a church service that her awful grandmother went to. She watches her grandmother light candles, blessing herself by making the sign of the cross and kissing her thumb repeatedly. Her grandmother was also running a crystal rosary between her fingers, saying many prayers and making many promises. …show more content…
In this poem she explains experience a fourteen-year-old girl during the relocation of Japanese Americans to camps. Even though the girl is from Japanese culture, Okita demonstrates her as an American child. She mentions that the girl doesn’t know how to use chopsticks very well and that her favorite food is hotdogs. The narrator also describes how their friendship evolved all through their grade school also how she considers Denise to be a true friend. Though Denise blames her friend is always starting a war, the narrator describes how the girl never gets mad at her
In response to "Mericans", the first sign of American identity is the classification of relatives in the style of traditional American names such as "Auntie" and “Uncle". The next thing that is noticed is the young American identity, or childhood. This story takes place at a church service that her awful grandmother went to. She watches her grandmother light candles, blessing herself by making the sign of the cross and kissing her thumb repeatedly. Her grandmother was also running a crystal rosary between her fingers, saying many prayers and making many promises. …show more content…
In this poem she explains experience a fourteen-year-old girl during the relocation of Japanese Americans to camps. Even though the girl is from Japanese culture, Okita demonstrates her as an American child. She mentions that the girl doesn’t know how to use chopsticks very well and that her favorite food is hotdogs. The narrator also describes how their friendship evolved all through their grade school also how she considers Denise to be a true friend. Though Denise blames her friend is always starting a war, the narrator describes how the girl never gets mad at her