Today I'm going to be discussing American Identity. In the poem "Response to Executive Order 9066" a young, Japanese American girl. "Mericans" is a short story, about three, young Mexican children. Each form of writing presents a form of American Identity.
Dwight Okita is the narrator of the poem "Response to Executive Order 9066." She is a fourteen your old Japanese American girl. Within Dwight's poem, she highlights on a handful of her qualities. Such as her best friend being an American girl, named Denis. Dwight also mentions she 'always felt funny using chopsticks,' and we implicatively say Japanese use chopsticks. Her favorite food is hot dogs, most of us would suspect her favorite dish to be sushi, or rice. Her poem was written all due to the fact she was being sent to an internment camp, along with multitudes of others. In the matter of weeks after Purl Harbor, anyone who's ethnicity was of Japanese decent was no longer trusted. Denis Dwight's best friend even turned her back on her. Dwight knew when she left to be placed in an internment camp, she was not going to be returning home at any point soon.
"Mericans" is narrated by a young Mexican girl, named Micaela. Micaela and her two brothers Alfredito, and Enrique, live in Mexico with their…show more content… Although they are resemble the same overall theme, they are extrodinarily different. "Response to Executive Order 9066" involes all of the Japanese Americans and the fact that they had been forced out of their homes, buiseness, and they were even abandoned by everyone around them. All because they had a diffferent ethnic background than we did. "Mericans" is a story about three Hispanic children that were talked to in Spanish due to the fact they lived in Mexico. Their grandmother spoke stricktly spanish and the children could understand her, but were not able to speak
