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Summary Of In Response To Executive Order 906 By Dwight Okita

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Cultural heritage and physical appearance do not determine what it means to be American. title of the poem is, "In Response to Executive Order 9066." And it's by Dwight Okita. I know that Executive Order 9006 was issued by the US government. And it detained Japanese Americans.” Dear Sirs, of course I'll come. I've packed my galoshes and three packets of tomato seeds. Denise calls them love apples. My father says where we're going they won't grow. I'm a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling and a messy room. If it helps any, I will tell you I have always felt funny using chopsticks and my favorite food is hot dogs." this poem begins to tell us about American identity Since the speaker is agreeing to go and I know that Executive Order 9066 was about detaining Japanese Americans, I can infer that, "Of course I'll come" tells us that our speaker was a Japanese American. In addition, I know that this Japanese American speaker is a girl, because she tells me. She says, …show more content…

"Mericans" sounds almost like Americans, but it sounds a lot like Mexicans also. In fact, it's a letter off from each. I believe she's blending the two cultures. I think it gives a good clue here about American identity. I can pick up a few other clues, based on details that Cisneros has in her short story. The grandmother here uses pesos. I know that pesos are a Mexican form of currency. Additionally, the narrator here uses Spanish phrases like la ofrenda. The final clue here is La Virgen de Guadalupe, or Our Lady of Guadalupe. I know that's the patron saint of Mexico in the Roman Catholic tradition. The short story seems to be about differences between the speaker and her grandmother. The narrator doesn't seem to like her grandmother very much and its obvious because she calls her awful twice. The narrator seems to dislike or maybe is irritated by her grandmother's religious

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