Immigration In House Of Sand And Fog

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Immigration definitely changes and challenges that characters in the novel House of Sand and Fog. Throughout the novel, the reader is given very descriptive pictures of how the socioeconomic status and class ranks present challenges for the individuals within the novel. As far as Behrani, he illustrates how back in Iran, he was a powerful colonel who was well respected and had great power in terms of social class. He and his wife lived in a beautiful home and had everything and anything one could wish for. However, after he moved to America, he realized immediately how people looked at him very differently when he was dressed in his blue collar uniform; compare this to how individuals bowed their heads at him when he wore dressier clothes.

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