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A 5 page analysis of Kate Simon's memoir Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood. The writer discusses how Simon and her neighbors in the Bronx acclimated to their new environment by observing life through the movies. No additional sources cited.
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- Greek - Hungarian - Rumanian" community -- in the years after World War I. As this suggests, the Bronx was an immigrant neighborhood. Simon records how she, and
other new immigrants, acclimated to American culture. It was a period of rapid change in America, in which rapid economic and cultural change was taking place. Therefore, the new immigrants
not only had to acculturate to the US, but also the new technology that was being introduced. Therefore, it is fascinating that Simon and her neighbors utilized a new
technological development in acclimating to their new environment. They went to the movies. Simon tells how her earliest memories of America made it sound like a fairytale land. Surviving
the war in Warsaw, she was told of how her father was in a place where everything was good. All events were reinterpreted to a timeframe of "when we get
to America." If there was no sugar for her milk, she was told that there would be heaps of sugar, as "tall as trees," when they got to America.
As wartime rations continued to diminish to the point where her family was eating coarse bread and potatoes, her life remained filled with visions of the abundance that would await
them after the war. In America, there would be "raisins and chocolate, cookies and dolls, white slippers and pink hair bows, all waiting for me in a big box
called America" (Simon, 1982, p. 19). While there was more abundance in the US, it was not the paradise that she had imagined. This was largely due to the
intolerance of her father his children. Simon writes that her father was a "stern man," who saw his duty as consisting of curing his family of "being the cosseted spoiled
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