Firoozeh Dumas The F Word Analysis

As we know, most people being immigrants to other countries have a hard time to adapt different culture in a new environment. They may meet some difficulties such as finding jobs, communicating with others and discrimination. According to the essay “The F Word” written by Firoozeh Dumas, she shows that one of the challenges for immigrants in America is their foreign names. Moreover, she also uses a lot of examples to indicate how this obstacle affects her life in different time period, such as her childhood, after graduating from university and getting married. Lastly, she chooses to use her original name and tries to respect her culture. However, Firoozeh Dumas utilizes a funny opening, circumstantial examples and coherent organization to explain the difficulty of having a foreign name in America effectively.

To begin with, “The F Word” disposes an interested hook in order to grab people’s attention at the beginning of the essay. Accordingly, she gives several examples to tell people that a foreign name can be a joke and have different meaning in another country. For instance, her brother Farshid is called “Farshit.” Additionally, the article “The F Word” mentions that her brother Arash whom people always laugh at, and ask if it itched because of his foreign name. Those examples grab people’s attention, and make people curious about what will be the most difficult situations for people having a foreign name. As a consequence, people are attracted by the hook and eager to keep reading. Besides, having detailed examples is one of the elements to lead an essay to be successful.
Apart from having an effective opening at the beginning of the essay, Firoozeh Dumas also uses detailed examples to describe the adversity of using a foreign name in America. Accordingly, Firoozeh means “Unpronounceable” or “I’m not going to talk to you because I cannot possibly learn your name and I just don’t want to have to ask you again and again because you’ll think I’m dumb or you might get upset or something.” As you see, since the author has this name, she was teased by other kids not until she got her American name. Furthermore, she kept drawing attention from others due to her name. For example, people ask her a plenty of questions like “when and why you had moved to America and how was it that you that I spoke English without accent” and so on. As a result, those questions make her feel pressured. Besides, she gives an example to show the difficulty to obtain a job by having a foreign name. Accordingly, she got three months of rejections, and finally she was called when adding the American name “Julie” to her resume. Using those detailed examples from her daily life, Firoozeh creates this essay effectively, lets people to understand the difficulty of having foreign name easily. In addition, the order of how a story happens is also the reason to make her essay to be effective.
Last but not at least, Firoozeh Dumas uses coherent organization to show the difficulty of having a foreign name in different time period, such as her childhood, after graduating and getting married in order to let people comprehend the essay easily.

When she was a child, she always got attention from others so that she wanted to have an American name to get rid of the attention. And then, she realized that college classmates tend to accept her. Therefore, she used her real name again. After graduating, she had a hard time for looking a job because of her real name. Thus, she added her American name to her resume, and she was called eventually. Lastly, she got married and became a stay-at-home mom. Then, she realized that “her family and non-American friends continued calling her Firoozeh, while her coworkers and American friends called her Julie.” Thus, she through that they could never be in the same room, and finally she decided to use her own name because she felt proud of her real name. This time order records almost her whole life and how this obstacle affects her life in different time period. Also, it makes people understand this essay

easily.
To sum up, the “F Word” is an effective essay which perfectly shows the difficulties of having foreign names in other countries. The author uses her real experience to explain how those obstacles affect her life in different time period in order to encourage people that even though people meet some difficult situations like using their foreign names, they should not give up their own names, and should feel great pride of them. In the article, Firoozeh Dumas not only uses an interested opening to grab people attention, but also disposes some circumstantial examples and creates coherent organization effectively in order to let people understand her essay easily.