Immigrants and their struggle to acceptance
             In the poem "Immigrants" by Pat Mora, is about a family striving for a better future for their children. The poem demonstrates a desperate need of an immigrating family searching for acceptance in their new country. The parents make forth efforts to surround their child with materialistic and cultural American traditions. Lastly, after attempts to transform their children from their uniqueness they're still unsure whether America will accept them into society. The cost of achieving acceptance in society is not worth the eradication of your natural and cultural personality.
             The parents in the poem are willing to do anything it takes to adopt their children with American traditions. "Feed them mashed hot dogs and apple pie" (Line 2 Mora). Hot dogs and apple pie are unarguably American food as well as culture. Not only food have the parents changed within their new culture, however the names of their children also. In addition to hot dogs and apple pie being popular American representations, the names Bill and Daisy are as well. Besides food and names symbolizing America, blond dolls and football correspond to American past times too. Within all comparisons of these examples, it's very easy to determine that some immigrants try to hide their ethnic identity to act like Americans.
             All the way through the poem, the parents attempt to do away with their children's roots instead of respecting themselves for the people they uniquely are. The poem significantly captures the insecurity of the parent's identity as well as illustrates the denial of one family's native culture into the transformation of a new cultural character. An example of doing away with someone's cultural back round is used through this example. "Speak to them in thick English, hallo, babee, hallo. Whisper in Spanish or Polish. Throughout these lin
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