Summary Of Funny In Farsi By Firoozeh Dumas

Firoozeh Dumas, in the “F Word” essay written for Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (2003), explains first, what her, her family and friends names mean and what they were called from American people instead of their real name; second her new American picked name so she wouldn’t feel so foreign; third why she switched back to her real name because she wanted to be proud of her heritage. Dumas describes her name and how people always mess it up because it is foreign but has learned to deal with it and has found that “Americans are now far more willing to learn new names.” Her purpose is to show that we as Americans should care about the hard names more in order to let the foreign ones feel more welcomed and how she as