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Analysis of Literary Language, "Gods Mood" by Lucille Clifton …

- - - - "The Prince of Los Cocuyos" by Richard Blanco
        A story about an immigrant boy integrating with American culture and his family's experience trying to integrate with him but being more resistant since they have memories and stronger ties to the old culture
        
        "América" by Richard Blanco
        Quote: "Abuelita prepared the poor fowl as if committing an act of treason, faking her enthusiasm for my sake. Mamá set a frozen pumpkin pie in the oven and prepared candied yams following instructions I translated from the marshmallow bag".
      - “Magical Dinners” by Chang-Rae Lee
        A story about an immigrant family, through the eyes of their child. They are trying to put on a proper American Thanksgiving, Showing them struggling with making the American foods, but doing so anyways for their children's benefit. this all serves as a metaphor for them working so that their children can have a better life in the USA, showing the passive assimilation an immigrant faces, even within their own communities. It also shows them holding onto their native culture in the food they prepare along with the turkey.
        Quote: "We’ll have the bird and its giblet stuffing à la Churchill (a recipe I still make), but the rest of the table is laid with Korean food."
  - - - “When Mr.Pirzada Came to Dine” by Jhumpa Lahiri
        A story about a boy growing to feel a sense of comfort with someone, only for them to have to leave; The person themselves suffering with the worry and dread of wondering if his family being missing.
        Quote: "It was only then...that I knew what it meant to miss someone who was so many miles and hours away, just as he had missed his wife and daughters for so many months. He had no reason to return to us, and my parents predicted, correctly, that we would never see him again... I had continued to eat, for the sake of Mr. Pirzada’s family, a piece of candy I had saved from Halloween. That night there was no need to. Eventually, I threw them away"
        
        "A Map of Lost Things” by Jamila Osman
        A story about a refugee's sense of home changing with trauma and experience.
        Quote; "Portland was nothing more than the city in which we lived until it became, suddenly and without warning, the city in which my sister died. The day after her funeral, my mother and I sat on the couch holding hands. “This was never supposed to be home,” she said through her tears. “But Ayan is here. How can we ever leave?” We buried my sister and we put down roots.”