The authors of the four memoirs overcame their childhood obstacles by accepting their personal identities. Gary Soto worked with his family to help their financial troubles. Laurence Yep learns that he doesn’t have to be good at sports. Obama finds out more about his background and embraces it. Julia Alvarez started taking her school work seriously and improved her attitude. Authors of the memoirs describe overcoming obstacles to teach readers that you shouldn’t be embarrassed of who you are.
Gary Soto wants to take part in his family’s long tradition of working in the fields. In the text it says ,”But after awhile we worked like we knew what we were doing.” Gary and his brother tried to work more swiftly and efficiently so they could earn a higher pay. The text says,“...pleased that we had in a small way, proved ourselves to be tough.” Proud that him and his brother showed “them” that they could contribute to their family and were strong enough to survive in the real world. The text states ,“I ate my words, sharpened my knife for one last time.” Gary Soto accepted that his family needed his help and worked one last time in the fields before school started. Soto accepted his personal
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In the text, it says,“ I had to do in that impossibly difficult, rocks-in-your-mouth language of English!” Julia wants to stay in the Dominican Republic and doesn’t want to learn english. “Her english is progressing nicely...I grinned as Mami read off the note that accompanied my report card of B’s.” She learns that her family is in a dangerous situation. “We raced off, wondering how to fit the contents of our Dominican lives into four small suitcases.” After Julia found out about the big move, her family was concerned if they were going to get to the United States safely. Julia accepted her personal identity by, learning english, so in the future would help the move be easier to the