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A 3 page essay that examines Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Carlos Bulosan's America is in the Heart. The writer argues that both texts express the author's impressions of America and the manner in which being "American" expresses itself in their lives. As a second generation Chinese-American, Wong's middle class background is very different from the abject poverty of Bulosan's Filipino background. Nevertheless, an examination of these two autobiographical accounts demonstrates how they each come to share a faith in the American Dream that offers them satisfaction and hope for the future. No additional sources cited.
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"American" expresses itself in their lives. As a second generation Chinese-American, Wongs middle class background is very different from the abject poverty of Bulosans Filipino background. Nevertheless, an examination of
these two autobiographical accounts demonstrates how they each come to share a faith in the American Dream that offers them satisfaction and hope for the future. A great deal
of Bulosans book deals with his childhood and adolescence in the Philippines, where his father is a poor farmer. However, from the beginning of the book, Bulosan makes the point
that the American lifestyle is impacting traditional ways of life. He writes, "For a time it seemed the younger generation, influenced by false American ideals and modes of living,
had become total strangers to the older generation" (Bulosan 5). As this suggests, there is more dichotomy in the Bulosan text. While Bulosan aspires to the American Dream and
expresses his belief in America emphatically at the end of his text, he also sees the underside of capitalism, which oppressed immigrant Filipino migrant workers during the Depression. On arriving
in the US, one of Bulosans first experiences is to be sold into virtually slavery as a cannery worker for work in Alaska. Bulosan writes, "In this way we
were sold for five dollars each to work in the fish canneries in Alaska, by a Visayan from the island of Leyre to an Ilocano from the province of La
Union...It was the beginning of my life in America, the beginning of a long flight that carried me down the years, fighting desperately to find peace in some corner of
life" (Bulosan 101). This differs sharply from Wongs experience growing up in San Francisco where her parents owned and operated an overall factory. However, while Wong was born in
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