japanese-americans

             Everyone has his or her own identity. Identity tells people [of ] who you are and what you are. For the past several decades, people HAVE TENDED TO DENY their ETHNIC identity, [of their ethnic], but identity is inevitable part of life in all societies. Identity is unperceivable because it can easily identified [in this modern world] today. [In] Bernard Malamud's story "The German Refugee" and Arthur Miller's play "Incident at Vichy TELL ABOUT PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE IDENTITY CHECKS and SHOW how [does] identity GETS between us in life and how [did] THESE PEOPLE overcame [with] the difficulties.
             In Malamud's story, Oskar Gassner was a Berlin critic and journalist, WHO escaped from GERMANY to the United States to serve as a lecturer. BECAUSE HE HAD DIFFICULTY writing and speaking English [was his problem] IT WAS HARD FOR HIM to convey his knowledge to the people in the United States. [His life had pushed him] HE WAS FORCED to learn English because his job required him to write a speech in English in a short time. [Therefore,] The story relates HOW HE LEARNED English with his tutor. There were times that Oskar wanted to give up, but he changed his mind. However, even though Oskar achieved his GOAL, he committed suicide [for self-punishment] in the end. [because] He regretted leaving his wife in GERMANY, and now he found out that his wife HAD BEEN killed by the Nazis because she HAD converted to Judaism.
             Language is a form of identity to Oskar. Without knowing any English in the United States, HE could not get [him] anywhere. Oskar could not express himself well and [would not be] WAS NOT able to identify himself [with the] IN CONVERSATIONS WITH people. Language is a way to deal with people in the world, and language is [everything] AN IMPORTANT PART of who you are and what you are. In Malamud's story, Oskar showed a national identity. He found himself in the loss of his language. Oskar THOUGHT he was...

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