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The “F Word” is an essay about an Iranian girl’s struggle with finding who she is, in a foreign land known as the U.S. It acknowledges her inner struggle with an outward showing character of herself that she holds, her name. During the essay the reader learns about how the girl fights her inner feeling of wanting to fit in and her deep rooted Iranian culture that she was brought up to support. Firoozeh Dumas, the girl in the book, and also the author of the essay, uses various rhetorical tactics to aid her audience in grasping the fact that being an immigrant in the U.S. can be a difficult life. To demonstrate her true feelings to the audience as an immigrant in the U.S., she uses similes, parallelism, and even her tone of humor. The first rhetorical device that is addressed countless times throughout the essay, is the use of similes. Firoozeh uses …show more content…
She uses parallelism to give people another perspective on how she felt and still feels about being an immigrant in the U.S., so that more people will be able to understand her struggle and be able to relate to it. One of the sentences in the book in which she uses parallelism is, “It made sense at that moment, perhaps by the logic employed moments before bungee jumping” (pg.740). In this sentence Firoozeh compares making the decision to change her name to Julie, to deciding to go bungee jumping. This emphasizes that she had trouble after making this decision and maybe even regretting making the decision because her inner emotions were conflicted. One side of her wanted to just be a normal girl from American while the other side of her wanted to show her heritage and be who she legitimately was. When she references this through the parallelism of someone going bungee jumping, it causes the reader to more easily understand how Firoozeh felt throughout the whole process of changing her name to Julie as a young
This book addresses the issue of race all throughout the story, which is while it is probably the most discussed aspects of it. The books presentation is very complex in many ways. There is no clear-cut stance on race but the book uses racist language. The racist language durin...
I chose this word because the tone of the first chapter seems rather dark. We hear stories of the hopes with which the Puritans arrived in the new world; however, these hopes quickly turned dark because the Purtains found that the first buildings they needed to create were a prison, which alludes to the sins they committed; and a cemetery, which contradicts the new life they hoped to create for themselves.
Have you ever felt like you didn’t belong somewhere? Do you know what it feels like to be told you don’t belong in the place of your birth? People experience this quite frequently, because they may not be the stereotypical American citizen, and are told and convinced they don’t belong in the only place they see as home. In Gloria Anzaldúa’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Anzaldúa gives the reader an inside look at the struggles of an American citizen who experiences this in their life, due to their heritage. She uses rhetorical appeals to help get her messages across on the subliminal level and show her perspective’s importance. These rhetorical appeals deal with the emotion, logic and credibility of the statements made by the author. Anzaldúa
Neil Gaiman – Mr. Gaiman starts his speech with a flashback to the beginning of his career before working his way to his claim. Gaiman then uses examples from his career as grounds to support the claim he made earlier in the speech before going in to some personal values that he feels that his audience (artists) should hear. Throughout the rest of the speech Gaiman uses his firsthand experiences to enforce each personal value and idea that he introduced earlier in the speech before going into his
In “My Two Lives”, Jhumpa Lahiri tells of her complicated upbringing in Rhode Island with her Calcutta born-and-raised parents, in which she continually sought a balance between both her Indian and American sides. She explains how she differs from her parents due to immigration, the existent connections to India, and her development as a writer of Indian-American stories. “The Freedom of the Inbetween” written by Sally Dalton-Brown explores the state of limbo, or “being between cultures”, which can make second-generation immigrants feel liberated, or vice versa, trapped within the two (333). This work also discusses how Lahiri writes about her life experiences through her own characters in her books. Charles Hirschman’s “Immigration and the American Century” states that immigrants are shaped by the combination of an adaptation to American...
With the help of these rhetorical choices that the author made, helps the reader to understand why we enjoy telling stories and how it is connected to the cognitive effects of a narrative. For example, if your friend is complaining that how he overwhelmed and exhausted from studying for midterm. From your own experience, you know how it feels like. That is how you have empathy with him and you share your own story about your past experience and might be able to give suggestions that you have done in the past and that worked out for you, so you can help your friend in
Roethke uses a few different literary modes to help create his imagery. Metaphor and similes are figures of speech in which a word or phrase tha...
In “With a Little Help from My Friends”, Firoozeh Dumas uses figurative language to demonstrate what her life was like in America.
In conclusion, the use of simile and metaphor throughout the novel bare the evidence that
... they are trying to enforce and protect. She is a part of the same people as all the men, but they do not see her this way. They are trying to cast her out. “…but only from their confusion, impatience, and refusal to recognize the beautiful absurdity of their American identity and mine…” Our narrator is an intellectual feminine immigrant who’s self image allows her to see that she is in fact the very same as the men; she is an American. The very idea of being an ‘American’ relates directly to immigration; the United States of America was founded by immigrants exactly like the narrator; the “beautiful absurdity” is the blindness of the men about who they truly are when she already knows “…and knowing now who I was and where I was and knowing too that I no longer had to run…”. She is in a safe place hidden from the Ras’s and the Jack’s, right now she is invisible.
The female, adolescent speaker helps the audience realize the prejudice that is present in a “melting-pot” neighborhood in Queens during the year 1983. With the setting placed in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, the poem allows the audience to examine the experience of a young immigrant girl, and the inequality that is present during this time. Julia Alvarez in “Queens, 1963” employs poetic tools such as diction, figurative language, and irony to teach the reader that even though America is a place founded upon people who were strangers to the land, it is now home to immigrants to claim intolerance for other foreigners, despite the roots of America’s founding.
Metaphor criticism would be my rhetorical method of choice. I selected metaphor criticism after reading the prompt above and saw an abundance of metaphors such as “stunning glimpse”, “dizzying height” and “journey to the top” just to name a few.
Funny In Farsi: written by Firoozeh Dumas is a memoir about an Iranian girl that came to America with her family, where they settled in Southern California. Throughout the story, the author shares stories about herself and what it was like to grow up in the United States. Out of many books, this one explains what it means to be an American from the author's perspective using her own experiences and comparisons. Her father Kazem is a very optimistic, encouraging, and clever man that raised his children to be kind-hearted and goal oriented; especially his daughter, Firoozeh.
When women migrate from one nation or culture to another they carry their knowledge and expressions of distress with them. On settling down in the new culture, their cultural identity is most likely going to change and that encourages a degree of not belonging; they also attempt to settle down by either assimilation or biculturalism. Consider identity issues of women from the borderlands like feminist Gloria Anzaldua. Her life in the borderlands was a constant battle of discrimination from the Anglo, she was caught in a world of two cultures, various languages, and male domination, “She realized she had two options, to be the victim or to take control of her own destiny” (Borderlands). In her book, Borderlands/La Frontera, she discusses conflicts of linguistic, sexual, and ethnic identity that exists on the border of Mexico and the United States. Gloria Anzaldúa articulates in one of her chapters, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, that “ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity;” the languages she possess wield extraordinary influence over her cultural identification (Borderlands). In her book she combines both Spanish and English to emphasize the significance of the position from which she writes, yet Anzaldúa also depicts the near impossibility of reconciling the cultures her speech reflects. When she speaks English, she speaks “the oppressor’s language” (Borderlands); when she speaks Chicano Spanish, she speaks “an orphan tongue” (Borderlands). As a result, the implications of language on her identity are, at times, problematic. Since the English speakers she must accommodate deem her tongue “illegitimate,” she deems herself illegitimate (Borderlands). Her life struggles in the borderlands compelled Gloria Anzaldúa to be resilient and even hopeful. She will use her native tongue to “overcome the tradition of
Culture is a major influence in not only the way we speak, dress, and act; but also a way we view the world. The extent of which culture influences ones’ views is dependent on many things; such as that of personal experiences as well as how one might view others, stereotypes, and even themselves. In different works such as “By Any Other Name”, “Legal Alien”, and “Multi-Culturalism Explained In One Word: HAPA”; we explore the different insights of not only multiple cultures, but almost entirely different worlds’ with the amount of variation between each story. I have personally viewed the different ways ones’ views might be affected, of which they all correlate to the same core message: that of which shows how culture is one of the biggest ways