What Is Bully, Immigrants, And Theme For English B?

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Race In today time, everyone still has problem with everyone. They’re not a perfect person on this earth but people try and get that ideal person. People speak different language and are learning many more but people who don’t speak a different language often has a problem with the one that do. In the three work that are discuss are Bully, Immigrants, and Theme for English B, they all talk about the many different race. People want to be accepted in to this ideal situation and not be judge by coming from a different background. Many are judge on who they are and who they want to be. People hold them self-back because of where they came from because they don’t think they got a chance. Bully is about how Roosevelt affect them as a person and the meaning behind the statue. The Roosevelt statue created a lot of conflict between people and divide them as a whole. People have different perfective about what true reasoning behind the statue. He has a lot of enemy from back then till now and Espada say that “Roosevelt is …show more content…

Parent fear that their babies wouldn’t end up being the American type that everyone saw in them. Pat Mora said in the poem “wrap their babies in the American flag” (Mora Pat) to hoping they would follow that path. People were worried that other were going to judge their kids because they are not American. Behind close door parent would “whisper in a dark parent bed, that dark parent fear” (Mora Pat) hoping that their child will fit in. Parent would say behind close door and teach the child where they really come from and teach them their background language, so they would “whisper in Spanish or Polish when the babies sleep” (Mora Pat). Many people speak different language but back then it wasn’t ok because people didn’t like to be spoken to in different languages. They would put up their wall for a protection from other they didn’t

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