Always Living In Spanish Analysis

Identifying Yourselves with your Culture

“ It’s easy to become anything you wish….so long as you’re willing to forfeit your soul” stated by Gene Luen Yang (29). In other words it means that it is easy to become a new person, as long as you are willing to give up your identity. In the articles “Always Living in Spanish” and “ Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual childhood” the author argues how the people had to adapt to the new circumstances they live in. Additionally they had to adjust to the new culture to be accept it in the new society they live in. However there were times people had to give up their own language to learn the new language, but still remember or practice their own language at home. Even though people would try to adapt to the

If you were latino, from Centro America, another place and color you were pre judged that you did not know and would not know how to speak the correct English. Likewise if you did not come from a rich family you would not be accept it to a high economic family.

However, it is true that language people speak or write represents who they are and the way society looks at them. The article “ Always Living in Spanish” the author Marjorie Agosin demonstrates, how the author would feel comfortable speaking her own language. Marjorie Agosin admits “ Only at night, writing poems in Spanish, could I return to my senses, and soothe my own sorrow over what I had left behind” (557). Agosin demonstrates that through the day she would speak and talk like an American would do, but at nights she would speak and write in her own home language which was Spanish. Writing and speaking in Spanish would remind her of her identity and where she came from. She felt through her writing she would be able to explain the way she felt without telling the world herself the way she felt about life, but her writing would expressed and speak for itself for

The article “ Bilingualism in America: English should Be the Official Language” explains how people from color were been pre judge since they were not white. S. I. Hayakawa claims “ Brown people, like Mexicans and Puerto Ricans; red people, like American Indians; and yellow people, like Japanese and chinese, are assumed not to be smart enough to learn English” (566). Hayakawa observes how people of color were been discriminated for being different colors and had low expectations of them. Just for being different from the society there were always going to be stereotypes for them. Similarly in the book The Joy Luck Club it talks about how Rose, one of the main characters of the book, has been discriminated from the social economic life she came from. Amy Tan confirms that “She assure me she had nothing whatsoever against minorities; she and her husband, who owned a chain of office stores, personally knew many fine people who were Oriental, Spanish and even black. But ted was going to be in one of those professions where he would be judged by different standard, by patients and other doctors who might not be as understanding as the Jordans were” (124). Tan is saying that the parents of Ted supposedly did not care about the different societies of economic people live, but if there son was going to be judge depending the wife and family he had. Since his