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Analysis of Literary Language, Carmen Maria Machado, “The Husband Stitch”,…

- - - - Author urges America to be inclusive towards refugees as the US has taken part in wars that displace other nations of their home. Conflict with society
    - - Author explores issues of racism, colorism and sexism. Conflict with family and society
  - - - Xiomara's conflict on how to deal with her repressed thoughts and struggle of being a teenager
    - - “You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking.”
        Narrator has an awakening call from troubles in her life
- - - - Author just immigrated to America as a young child. He starts adapting American culture and his family assimilates, combining American culture with their Korean culture through food
    - - Author shares how his family adopted an American holiday, thanksgiving, by adding their own traditions of Cuban festivities for the entire family to enjoy in their new American environment.
  - - - Author is ambiguous on the character's races, forcing the readers to confront their preconceived notions of stereotypes on racism
    - - Author uses her anger to respond to racism, anger that she has been suppressing due to fear of how society will react.
        "My fear of anger taught me nothing. Your fear of that anger will teach you nothing, also."
    - - Author addresses the restrictions on Black people living in America that are imposed on them due to racism
  - - - Author uses different stories to tell a different story of how the earth was created. She addresses different traditions and their belief of the benefits of being kind to nature while taking care of the environment. Mother nature knows how to survive and it helps animals navigate through it for their survival.
    - - The wonders of mother nature is presented through a flower that repels those who threaten it, and attracts its prey. Presenting how human beings treat nature for their own convenience
- - - - Setting in historical war time in Vietnam, during the fall of Saigon
  - - - Lilia living in Boston. Mr. Pirzada would visit her home and engage with her parents in the living room in front of the TV
- - - - Through the narrator, the author provides information on Vietnam refugees and the horrors they went through. Adding on lasting effects of war survivors and their new perception on life and connection to their homeland
    - - Author provides information of the carefree lifestyle of an African-American man. Living everyday as he pleases because tomorrow is not promised
    - - Author informs her audience of the fear and distress that marginalized people undergo, because they are judged by society
  - - - Author persuades readers to re-evaluate their views on Asian Americans and the issues between them and African Americans, which being the division caused by White Americans for their benefit in keeping down Black Americans
    - - Advocating for gender equality and representation in the literary world
    - - Author persuades his audience, primarily Black people, to stand up against racism and discrimination and fight for justice