thanksgiving celebration
In “A Thanksgiving Celebration” Nicholasa Mohr, focuses on a mother named Amy. By overcoming her disconnections and reconnecting with her native culture, Amy is able to achieve the Thanksgiving celebration that she wants for her children.
Amy becomes disconnected from her native culture when she immigrates to the United States. After living in the United States for a couple of days, Amy wonders night after night if she can face another one of those days like the one she had safely survived. Amy soon wakes up and goes shopping while waiting to pick up the kids from school. One of Amy’s problems was the leak that she had in her apartment for four months now, she would call in someone to fix it but the tenant would just reply that “we will get to you as soon as possible but we have bigger problems in other rooms, and were working as fast as we can.”(3557) Amy’s problem would just make her think about how she misses Puerto Rico and how she starts to feel isolated and disconnected the longer she lives in her.
Amy’s isolation and disconnection from her culture and other characters worsened after Charlie’s death. When Amy wondered and groped about Charlie’s death, no one could tell her what had really happened or how he felt or what he was thinking before he died. Amy remembered back to when the news came to her of Charlie’s death. It was two officers at her door, Amy welcomed the officers in and they told her to have a seat. Only one officer spoke and said “on the Bruckner Boulevard Expressway….head on collision…dead on arrival… didn’t suffer too long…nobody was with him, but we found his wallet.” Amy didn’t want to believe it she was saying the officers were lying, but she finally realized that it was reality and that Charlie was dead. Charlie’s death really hurt her deep and worsened her emotionally.
Amy thought about the dinner for the kids for the next day and how she didn’t have enough money to afford anything. Amy before would turn to Charlie and share, but
Amy becomes disconnected from her native culture when she immigrates to the United States. After living in the United States for a couple of days, Amy wonders night after night if she can face another one of those days like the one she had safely survived. Amy soon wakes up and goes shopping while waiting to pick up the kids from school. One of Amy’s problems was the leak that she had in her apartment for four months now, she would call in someone to fix it but the tenant would just reply that “we will get to you as soon as possible but we have bigger problems in other rooms, and were working as fast as we can.”(3557) Amy’s problem would just make her think about how she misses Puerto Rico and how she starts to feel isolated and disconnected the longer she lives in her.
Amy’s isolation and disconnection from her culture and other characters worsened after Charlie’s death. When Amy wondered and groped about Charlie’s death, no one could tell her what had really happened or how he felt or what he was thinking before he died. Amy remembered back to when the news came to her of Charlie’s death. It was two officers at her door, Amy welcomed the officers in and they told her to have a seat. Only one officer spoke and said “on the Bruckner Boulevard Expressway….head on collision…dead on arrival… didn’t suffer too long…nobody was with him, but we found his wallet.” Amy didn’t want to believe it she was saying the officers were lying, but she finally realized that it was reality and that Charlie was dead. Charlie’s death really hurt her deep and worsened her emotionally.
Amy thought about the dinner for the kids for the next day and how she didn’t have enough money to afford anything. Amy before would turn to Charlie and share, but