Literary Analysis
"First day of school!!," I shouted with nervous excitement as I jumped out the car to attend my first day at an American school. My anxiety was building high – everyone said this would change my life. They say this is good for me; that my life will be better by starting school in America at such a young age. But all I felt was separation, and hunger – as I sat on the "redpainted benches in the fall chill of noon" and last night's caldereta hiding beneath me, securing away any small differences that may betray me more than my face already has (Gloria). As the weeks passed, the "scattered rice – beneath the length of that redpainted bench – blackened with the schoolyard's dirt" as I sat and ate my turkey sandwich with my best broken English (Gloria).
This scene from Eugene Gloria's poem, "Assimilation," describes a young Filipino's loss of ethnic identity when, at school, he hides the lunch his mother prepares for him. The ‘repainted benches' signifies his difference among......
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