Even though people have no direct connection with one another, they could find similarities and differences within each other by observing individual’s life. In the memoir, The Red-Headed Hawaiian by Chris McKinney and Rudy Puana, a life of Rudy has been described from his childhood to his adulthood. The journey of Rudy Puana starts with cultural identity and ends in cultural identity, in which Hawaiian and haole culture became obstacles as well as solutions to his problem. Throughout Rudy’s educational period, he experienced mistreatment, hardship, and recoveries from the undesirable conditions. His life is especially different from other life as well as from my life. Indeed, the majority of what I found was differences. However, Rudy and I experienced similar obstacles that define each identity. First of all, isn’t it seems obvious that because two people have only couple characteristics in common and held the majority of differences, this two person is not alike? At first, I believed that this statement is true because if two distinct people have characteristics not in common, then they should encounter a different kind of obstacles and grew up differently. This could be said to Rudy and me. For example, …show more content…
Although Rudy experienced more crests and troughs in his life compared to my life, this two experienced similar obstacles and shaped somehow similar identity. Overall, Rudy and I learned to be a hard worker and inherited different cultures due to changing environment. Rudy learned how to be responsible and never say “no can,” while I learned effort to be responsible. Rudy’s Hawaiian based identity influenced by his Hawaiian and haole ideal and my Japanese identity influenced by open-minded Hawaiian culture found similarities through each other’s cultural