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Christina Diaz Gonzalez And The Red Umbrella By Jose Hernandez Clare

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The story The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and the immigration photo by Jose Hernandez Clare are two things that i am comparing. The common subject that is portrayed in these stories/Photographs is family separation. The Red Umbrella and The Immigration photo both have thing in common, they both also have their own unique thing about them. In these stories/photo they both have something different, in the immigration photo the men chose to leave everything they know and love to go to america and in the red umbrella the children were forced to go to america they didn’t have a choice and they didn’t want to go. In the story The Red Umbrella the children say this “But if you send us to the U.S., we still won’t be together.” and their fathers response is “True, but I’d rather have you safe, living with a good family in the U.S., than staying in your own country with these godforsaken …show more content…

The big similarity and subject in both of these stories/photos are family separation, and in The Red Umbrella the children have to leave their family and flee to America to find a new home and a new life. In The Immigration Photo the men are leaving their families by choice because they want to get out of their country, and in both of these text it shows the subject of family separation because both the men in the picture and the children in the story are both leaving their families to find a new life in America. In these texts the author who wrote them feels sympathy because they are separated from their families. The author feels sympathy through writing deeply about how sad and painful it is to leave all of your possessions behind. In the Immigration photo it says “As the only window to the future, you abandon your life” the author is saying that the only way to escape and have a good future is to abandon your old life and start a new one, and leave everyone you know and love

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