Hunger of Memory

While reading this article, I really found myself connecting the main idea with that of An Indian Father's Plea. Both stories really highlight the difficulties of coming from a diverse background and being so culturally different. In the Hunger of Memory article, the author describes his everyday life, which to me seems to be an extremely powerful way to get a point across. He discusses the things he had to endure due to his culture. the boy was two completely different people in and out of school and not because he was a trouble maker, but because he was not as comfortable speaking English as his second language. The boy would rather have been at home, where his culture was accepted and embraced instead of hid and kept quiet. Eventually due to outside forces, the boy's home was forced to become Americanized and rid themselves of their foreign culture. This fits in with An Indian Father's Plea because in this senario the boy comes from a diverse culture which he grew up comfortably in and was suddenly forced to become Americanized due to outside forces at school. These changes in the boy eventually effected his family because they were forced to help him grow in his new culture, having to put aside their own. It is amazing how many opinions an outside influence can have on ones life. In both articles, the boys should have accepted themselves for who they were and where they came from, but when higher authorities are not on your side, I see where it can be difficult to complete this. Unfortunately this happens to kids everyday. From the color to their skin, to their accents, to what they like to eat is all based on their culture and where they are from and is either accepted by fellow peers, or rejected.