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Firoozeh Dumas Peeling Bananas
Compare and contrast “The F Word” by Firoozeh Dumas and “Peeling Bananas” by Wendy Lee
“The F Word” by Firoozeh Dumas and “Peeling Bananas” by Wendy Lee, tell stories on their encounter on migrating from their previous homes. They are both faced and challenged with negativity.
Eventually, they look for ways to revolve those problems to fit in with the community.
In “The F Word”, Dumas asks Americans to open up and accept foreign cultures. Dumas and her family moved to America; due to the misunderstanding in her name when she was in middle school, it was hard to fit with her peers which made her feel the need to change her name. But as she grew older, she decided to change her name back to Firoozeh.
As for “Peeling Bananas”, Lee was born
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