Remember Where You Come From

Remember Where You Came From

Going Home to Teach by Anthony C. Winkler gives you a different perspective of how a white man had to face adversities, discrimination, and frustration from his own culture. Winkler emphasis on how he wanted to make a change, by returning to Jamaica and teach (43). Winkler describes the difference between English and American ways of teaching. Going Home to Teach made a deep impression on me by giving me an overview of Jamaica from a perspective.

Winkler paints a hilarious outlook on how living in Jamaica and then migrating to America have different culture upbringing (39-110). The author’s style of writing shows how versatile his writing can be; buy switching back on forth between the native language and Standard English. His strength is his versatility to transform Jamaica culture and bring the culture alive by describing the rich environment he grows up in and where his origin lies. The switching back and forth between the stories of now and pass is a bit confusing. Even though each story correlate with each other Winkler should have least lessen his...