Growing Up Native: Geddes Experience Migration To Canada

It was finally the time for me to say goodbye to my relatives and friends and leave for the airport. I was nervous and excited at the same time as I was going to live away from the ones I loved. I always had a feeling that I will not be accepted or wanted by the new group of people that I was soon going to join, but as I immigrated to canada in 2013, nothing was strange; people behaved normally, sun rose in the morning and I never felt isolated. As a newcomer, I have seen lots of differences among my home country, India and Canada. Seeing such a different country with new people was like a maze which was slowly revealing its own secrets. Canada has always been welcoming towards me and my family. I disagree with Geddes’s thesis in the essay

There is an equality within immigrated people and white kids. Geddes mentions that “[t]hey were constantly being rejected” (37). According to me, rejection refers not to be in a count of loyalty, equality, and respect. For instance, I study at Agincourt collegiate Institute; there are 42 clubs from which five clubs are for different societies and culture: African-Caribbean Club, Agincourt Chinese Association, French Club, Muslims Students Association, Tamil Students Associations, and Teens 4 Christ. Every newcomer feeling alone and left out has a chance to get along with the people of same society and make new friends. Therefore, having so many different culture and societies in colleges and schools present how Canada is tolerance to every person and no discrimination, or humiliation is seen towards the

It makes the essay effective and easy to understand as her life goes like seesaw. Geddes compares the past with present to show the outcome on her life which purely explains how the present is so different than the past. Geddes writes, “. . . but the memory of those arms and the feeling of acceptance I had is one of the most vivid memories,” Disagreeing, she states, “[t]hey told us to give it up and assimilate into white Canadian culture” (34-39). As a reader, I get to know how the author felt the sense of acceptance and the need of wanted in her native country, but as she transferred to Canada, she feels rejection and slap in the face. There is not much liking for her from the white kids and nobody care enough to have her in Canada, but in the past, it was all opposite where people would take turns to carry her where there was a sensitivity of happiness and protection in those arms. The author opposes differences between what her life was like and what it is today. Therefore, using the method of development, contrast, Geddes successfully holds her thesis and makes some really good connections between her past and present