¶ … crossings ( a movement categories) personal identity poems. words, border crossing affect person persons poem crosses? *examining language poems *Discuss specific words phrases convey speakers point view / subject ( crossing) Chitra Banierjee Divakaruni "Indian Movie, New Jersey" Pat Moira "Legal Alien" Janice Mirikitni "Recipe."
Globalization has made it possible for individuals from diverse backgrounds to interact with each-other without experiencing significant problems, as border gradually come to represent less of a barrier. Even with this, people still feel the effects of living in a multicultural environment as they struggle to define their personal identities while focusing on their cultural background. Chitra Banierjee Divakaruni's "Indian Movie, New Jersey," Pat Mora's "Legal Alien," and Janice Mirikitani's "Recipe" are all poems dedicated at providing society with a better understanding concerning the sentiments people experience consequent to leaving their homes and trying to integrate in a foreign environment.
Divakaruni's poem provides an intriguing view in the life of an Indian family as it goes through a confusing process involving both assimilation and the keeping of traditional values at the same time. The characters in "Indian Movie, New Jersey" are shown expressing disillusionment concerning their expectations of the U.S. The fact that the poem puts across a message concerning how the U.S. is nothing as the film shows makes it possible for readers to understand that the Indian characters in the poem are actually saddened as a consequence of leaving their homes in order to 'make it' on the American continent.
The characters in "Indian Movie, New Jersey" appeared to be transported into a completely different world as they watch the motion picture. It provides the impression that everything is perfect and "wipes from our faces years of America, sons who want Mohawks and refuse to run the family store, daughters who date on the sly" (Divakaruni). The word Mohawk is actually used with the purpose to emphasize how Indian characters have come to be appreciative toward concepts that have nothing to do with their
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