Marianne Williams once said ,”There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve; The fear of failure.” This applies to the poems, “Yuba City,” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, as the the main characters son, Jajgid is being restrained from achieving the reason he came to America. This is due to the fact that that bullies are making him fear them so much so that the fear spreads to his mother, just because he’s different. One of the best ways to explain fear throughout the passage is, fear can spread from one person to another. I can connect my thesis to my life, because last year my uncle got extremely sick, and almost died. When this happened, the fear of my uncle losing his life spread throughout my family eventually reaching