My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop By Naomi Shihab Nye Summary

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“My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop”, by Naomi Shihab Nye, conveys the cultural experience of an immigrant by connecting it to an immigrant’s relative who first came to a new country and was describing his initial experience by using repetition and symbolism. The character in the poem has trouble with initially trying to fit in with the new culture in the country he came to. The author uses anaphora by repeating “Immigrant” in lines 19-20, “Immigrants had double and nothing all at once. Immigrants drove the taxis, sold the beer and Cokes.” This shows that immigrants arrived in a new country with barely anything, and started from the bottom. Saying that “Immigrants drove the taxis, sold the beer and Cokes,” was inferring that immigrants began their

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