On Notes of an Alien Son: Immigration Paradoxes Andrei is trying to reflect the two paradoxes of immigrating to new culture(country) through his mother. His essay primarily explains the expectation of immigrants before migrating to new culture and the lose and devastations they encounter afterwards. The paradoxes of gaining material wealth but loses of satisfaction on it and the hope of no return are main elements on his essay. Through the comparison between material well-being and psychological losses Andrei is trying to make his purpose of Informing immigrants to expect what is the unexpected. Purpose of this essay is to inform people that moving to other places can have Paradoxes. Many people leave their country because they are sick of being poor but his mother was a rich person back in Romania. Even after she came to America the first thing she did was invested on Sear furniture which she kept their plastics on for fifteen years before she realized that sears weren’t a great investment. With out you even knowing it ethos is doing its work. Andrei could have used any one who is an immigrant for is essay. Rather than…show more content… His audiences from this perspective are mainly Immigrants and specifically American Immigrants that left their country for the same material gain. Andrei purpose fully give repeats the words Immigration. To attract his audiences the author used pathos. His purposefully picked Vocabulary words such as lonely, poor, sad feelings, leaving behind, and mourning are some of the many words he used to create a sympathy towards his mother’s experience and in general immigrants. By doing so He is trying to create a connection between his targeted audiences and his work. Similarly, if we see this from Audience’s point of view the essay can be read by immigrants that have experienced the same thing as his
