Identity In Fish Cheeks And Papa's Parrot

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“Identity is your most valuable possession, protect it.” -Elastigirl. If you lose your identity, you will not be yourself. Keep your identity. Do not make any changes that people tell you to make to yourself. Just be you. In the short stories “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D Wetherell, and “Papa’s Parrot” by Cynthia Rylant, the characters learn their identity through significant moments.
To begin, in “Fish Cheeks” Amy realizes her identity through preparing for a holiday dinner with the minister’s family. For example, when Amy has a big crush on Robert, whose family comes over for a holiday dinner, she gets embarrassed when her mother makes a menu filled with raw foods. “Years later, “long after I had …show more content…

For example, the narrator asks Sheila out to the the fair. When they get to the fair, they walk around for a while and Sheila sees Eric Caswell. Sheila loves him so much that she tells the narrator that she will be going home in his corvette. “There will be other Sheila Mant’s in my life, other fish in the sea, and I though I came close once or twice, it was the secret, hidden tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made the same mistake again” (5). The narrator realizes that Sheila loves Eric Caswell more than she loves him, after he finds out that she will be going home in Eric’s corvette. He also realizes that he will not get every girl that he asks out to love him, which is an important life lesson to learn. In conclusion, the narrator finds his identity through significant moments with …show more content…

For example, Harry’s dad is used to having Harry come into the shop. As Harry gets older, he stops coming as much because he and his friends have better things to do than eat candy. They have more spending money. His father really misses him so he gets a parrot to keep him company. The parrot repeats whatever his dad says. One day, his dad gets hurt and Harry has to look after the shop. He gets in and Rocky the parrot keeps saying, “Where’s Harry, miss him” (3). Harry learns an important life lesson of his dad missing him a lot. He also learns that he needs to visit his dad after school to keep him company. To finish off, Harry found his identity as a kid who needs to visit his dad more

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