My Father Mukherjee Analysis

A parent's past decisions affect their expectations they have for their child, which affects how individual identity shapes how they view the world, this expectation impacts the need for closeness with family ties and the choice of a relationship with the parent beyond childhood. Primarily as a young child, one's life relies on the hands of a parent yet, as one grows up, a clear distinction is seen in the type of relationship that is established between a parent and child. White makes his son do the exact same things he once had done as a young boy during the annual summer trip to Maine Lake. In which White uses the dual existence of his family to show the pattern of parenting within in his family that forms a really close relationship between

Mukherjee uses her own experience as to which she became part of U.S history “yet after fifteen years of aggressive correction, a rare literacy notice that did not identify [her] as ‘Indian”’(Mukherjee 437). Mukherjee was transformed into a very distant person compared to her sister although they came from identical backgrounds but her sister preserved their customs and really wanted to return to India whereas Mukherjee enjoys the life she has here in America. Mukherjee uses the idea behind immigration to make the point that “ beyond [all individuals] must understand, and truly accept that in the United States for all its power is only minority state” that is made up of families that come in search for opportunities (439).However Ruiz not only had to accept her brother’s change in orientation from a man to women but “ [Ruiz’s] brother [was] hell-bent for castration, the castration that started before he had a language: the castration of abuse”(Ruiz 521).Ruiz’s brother from a young age learned to hide his identity from others especially being caught at a young age by his father trying on his sister's cloth getting beat so hard that he taught he was going to die coming to the conclusion that ‘[he] would never get caught again”(529).Ruiz may have had a hard time accepting her brother for who he was through the teachings that their father had engraved within their thinking but she loved her brother through it all learning to accept him for his choices growing closer to him after the death of their father.In both cases, Mukherjee and Ruiz's brother learned to accept their own identities as an individual within the barriers that have been built surround