Even though the speakers in Okita's poem and Cisneros's short story have strong roots in their foreign cultures, they both feel very much connected to their American identities.
The narrators describe how they identify with each culture in both "Mericans" and "In Response to Executive Order 9066" not based on their ethnicity, but where they relate to the most. Both of the authors explain this in different ways.
Through "Mericans" the author uses similarities of how the narrator feels compared to how her grandmother feels and by using examples of the American culture. The author uses the emotions of both the narrator and the grandmother to show their different opinions on how they see their identities. “The awful grandmother knits the names of the people who have died and of the people who are still alive into one long prayer fringed with the grandchildren born in that barbaric country with its
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as horrible and strongly identifies with the Mexican culture and church, the girl doesn't feel the same way. Another way that the author shows identity differently from Okita is by using references to American pop culture: "I want to be a flying feather dancer, too, but when he circles past me, he shouts," I'm a B-Fifty-two bomber, you 're a German, "and shoots me with an invisible machine gun." The use of these references shows the connectivity of the narrator to American culture.
In "Response to Executive Order 9066", Dwight Okita chooses to use different methods while still following a similar idea. By using the narrator's direct thoughts, it allows the reader to take a deep look at the girls' own ideas about their identity. “If it helps any, I will tell you I have always felt weird using chopsticks and my favorite food is hot dogs” The