Change To Be American
Erika Fletcher
4/28/05
Period 7
The Change to be American
The Melting Pot is a short story written by Anna Quidlen. Seventh Grade is written by Gary Soto. The Melting Pot is about a neighborhood of people, all in different cultures fitting together as one culture. Seventh Grade is about Latino boys and girls fitting into American culture, and trying to forget their own culture. Although the Melting Pot and Seventh Grade are different scenarios of culture coming together, they still have the similarity of trying to fit into an American culture.
In the Melting Pot a child is growing up in New York, of one third are Chinese/ Japanese, one third Italians, and one third various race. In this neighborhood of so many cultures, it seems that together they have bonded a new culture. However, in bonding a new culture it seems that some have forgotten their own culture. One thinks this because in the quote,” The father speaks some English, the mother less than that. The two......
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