American story and hunger of memory

     

           The final: an American story and hunger of memory

        An American story is about a Vietnamese boy named Viet din, he is trying to survive the awful and deadly days during the Vietnam War. He flees the war battles on a small fishing boat along with his family. Most of his family were captured and taken to camps where they were either imprisoned or toured for days. Most of vet’s family either perished in the ocean or were sent to the camps. But to this day they reunite forever despite their pain and torture days they find each other and live happy for the rests of their lives. The theme on an American story is that no matter if your parents ,brothers and sisters are mean to you is because they love you and want you to live happy and to be grateful that you have a family that loves you.hunger of memory is about a family from Mexico who moves to Sacramento California. They now with American people which they call the gringos and are the only poorest family in the whole block. Their house looked so poor that in comparison to the other houses looked like rich houses. The family haves trouble fitting in with the whole neighborhood. Even the kids from the family have trouble at school not fitting in with the other kids. Richard Rodriguez talks about his childhood and the trouble that the family is going through and been through. Knowing only a few words of English he has problems of commotion with the other American kids. But despite his commotion he learns and becomes accustomed with the neighborhood. The theme on hunger of memory is that you may lose something but you gain something new.

     An American story takes place in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. ‘They were boat people, they had left Vietnam on a small fishing boat, which lost its engine in a storm. “Which that means the family left Vietnam because the Vietnam War and to gain their freedom. But some family members either got lost at sea or taken to camps. But all end up surviving. Hunger of memory takes place in Sacramento California. ‘Nor was the Sacramento of the fifties bent on teaching then a country lesson. Meaning they moved to Sacramento California which they came from Mexico and move to America as illegal immigrants and are living on the same block with the gringos and are not fitting with the nieghbors.the similarities between hunger of memory and an American story is that the both stories is about a family having trouble and but together they each fight each other’s with their problems and stay together. The differences between hunger of memory and an American story is that an American story was about a family trying to survive the Vietnam war and hunger of memory is about a family of illegal immigrants having trouble fitting in as a American family think that an American story had more sadness or more

    Drama in it because the family suffered a lot in life. They tried to escape Vietnam for their freedom and even their life but along the way the engine of their small fishing boat gets lost during a storm. Some family members got lost at sea and the family members that survived were sent to camps. But hunger of memory was less drama but was about an illegal family from Mexico that moves to California and haves trouble fitting with the Americans which they call los gringos.even the kids of the family have trouble with the Americans kids but Richard Rodriquez talks how him and his family have trouble speaking English but despite that he learns a little bit of English a day and soon becomes an expert of speaking English. The setting of an American story was in Sacramento California and the setting in hunger of memory was in Vietnam. The settings in both of the stories are nothing alike because hunger of memory    is in America and an American story takes place in Asia. And their plot of each story is nothing alike either because an American story is about a family trying to survive the Vietnam war and hunger of memory is about a family from Mexico not used to the daily of America and having trouble fitting in. that’s why these stories don’t relate but in some ways they do like for example the bother stories is about a family having in some sort of way. I think they could have made these stories better by adding more details and examples like for example for the story of an American story is that they could have more details to how the family survived the days on being on the ocean and days of being in the camp. And think which would made hunger of memory better would be if that have added how the other family members have trouble speaking English in their daily lives.