Immigrants By Pat Mora Essay

People come from distinct places and have contrasting cultures. Just because you are diverse doesn’t mean you have to be ashamed. The poem "Immigrants," by Pat Mora and the short story "Names/Nombres," by Julia Alverez both shows us a lesson about being proud of where you are from and who you are. The authors' shows that the theme is don’t be ashamed of who you are and they show it by their story and the poem they wrote.

Be proud of your heritage and culture. In "Immigrant," by Pat Mora, expresses that to be proud of your culture. It says that they name their kids' American names instead of the names that they probably would name them if they weren't immigrants. In the poem, it says, "Will they like our boy, our girl, our fine American boy, our fine American girl." They evicted their own culture and were assimilated into the American culture. In the beginning of the poem the author talks about the immigrants doing things the American ways. The author wrote about how they name their children as American names, they talked about how they ate American foods, doing football, and how they said at the end when they will whisper to their children in their own language when the child is asleep.

Be yourself and be proud of it.
In both short story and poem "Immigrant," by Pat Mora and "Names/Nombres," by Julia Alverez the theme is that you need to be proud of who you are and where you are from. In the poem "Immigrant," the author say that they wrap their babies in the American flag. They also say that they feed them American food like mushed hot dogs, let them play football, and talk to them in their own language when their child is sleeping. In the short story "Names/Nombres," talked about how Julia just let people call her different names and was embarrassed of her background. Don't think that you are different from everyone else because of your background because your background makes who you