Dirt By Sandra Cisneros: A Synthesis Essay

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The Journey started out with the huge reality of black life from the bondage of slavery to the bondage racism, bigotry, and disrespect due to the cultural ideology of the black and white race. Then we back further to explore the cross-culture American Indian heritage and the new culture they had to conform to with the new Caucasian Americans. The Latino and Asian writers expressed the clashes between cultural heritage and American culture. I cannot say that any of the writers has changed my thoughts on cultural diversity because I have experienced some of the same struggles that their stories address throughout their characters. Their struggles depict, discrimination, being a minority within the majority, cultural values, traditions and life …show more content…

Her short story called, “Dirt,” gives us a picture of the Latino community surroundings. The narration is from a child's perspective, who is born in America, and her father is from Mexico. The struggle here is trying to understand the interaction of the cross-culture society. The Latino community is holding on to their way of life in America. And the things that the culture brings are values, tradition, culture heritage and this can also bring “Enraged. Disgusted. Triumphant” as we merge values of American with our Heritage (Cisneros, 1996, para 14). The poet Li-young Lee, Asian American, depicts the struggle of accepting the cycle of life and expressing the challenges for the love of his culture and how Asian American see their place with earthly things and adjusting to the American society. His past life endured discrimination, and acceptance, in which he describes beautifully, mystical and spiritually with to the words in his writing (Bradley, 2014). The Diversity of the writers, Cisneros, McKay and Lee, all express life, struggles with being a minority in America. You see them identifying how society sees’s them and they accepting their heritage. You see them struggle to form a bridge of how their cultural heritage and the American culture will co-exist within themselves and

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