Learn From Caesar Conformity

Rita Mae Brown once said “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.” It means that once you conform like others in a society then everyone will like you except you won’t like yourself, but sometimes it’s the opposite of it. Some people might see conform as a statutory for the immigrants just like George in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s short story What I Learned from Caesar, and George from The Rink written by Cyril Dabydeen. However, leads from both stories show an extraordinary strength to adapt in the new society but the barriers of conformity are not easy, because both of them face parallel kind of situations from outside and inside, by the end they both were overwhelmed what is good for them.
To start with, different things such as language learning favorite sport and other things, that an immigrant wishes to learn and adapt in the society by using it. What I Learned from Caesar, George wants to conform to the new society by learning how to speak the language and the ways to communicate.
What I Learned from Creaser, George shows himself as a fool in front of his child and office where he went to apply for relief. “So his story was told and retold, and each time it was enlarged and embellished until the injustice was magnified beyond comprehension. He made a damn fool of himself” (Vanderhaeghe,6). The author tells that how he made fun of himself, and he thought by doing this he will adapt the society. The Rink, while George has some hope that before his unborn child and dreams that she will be able to skate. “After all, this child, our newborn in a few moth’s time, this child right inside you now, she’s going to skate better than both of us” (Dabydeen, 26). This lights up a power in him that he can do this. Overall,