Eva Kolb Melting Pot

The Melting pot can be defined as a “metaphor for a society where many different types of people blend together as one”(Vanek para1). This usually happen in countries like America, and Germany or any other major name countries. Each country has its own xenophobia. Americans should eliminate racism from their mindset because the melting pot was manufactured by stereotypes, unrealistic goals and, the human factor to it. In Eva Kolb’s story about Jake and Gittle who were a foreign couple who came to America to get a better life. Jake took this trip to America separate from his wife because it was all he could afford. Despite his love for his wife, he could not have taken her with him due to the family's financial problems in their home country.

It is often reference to the unpredictability, of a person’s action. This transformation is called whimsical transformation. Whimsical transformation happens when a person changes their personality by a whim or petty things. This change is erratic because he was not force or coerce in changing his identity. He just felt that he needed to for zero apparently reasons. This is neither fundamentalism or proselytization but a whimsical decision on his end. He decided that he must change his identity to really experience America. Although this was not necessary for any body, he does this without thinking of the consequences of his actions. He could not go back to a pious Jewish lifestyle because he lost his identity. When his wife, Gittle came to New York; she was in for big surprise. Her husband hated towards his traditional lifestyle wife and when she did not approve of his assimilation to America, he dumped her due his lack of love towards her. Despite how much money he gave her to travel to America, he could not find in it, in his heart to love her anymore. Although it does seems strange that Jake would just leave Gittle like that but when he lost his identity to integrate into American’s culture, it could be unified with