Thursday, June 16, 2016

What Quote From Literature Best Sums Up The Immigrant Experience?

“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
















When you're from an immigrant family, sometimes the best way to find yourself reflected in media is reading a poignant line from literature.



When you're from an immigrant family, sometimes the best way to find yourself reflected in media is reading a poignant line from literature.






Fox Searchlight




















Like: "For being a foreigner Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy -- a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts."



Like:



From Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake.




Houghton Mifflin




















Or: "First generation kids, I've always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.”



Or:



From this essay by Durga Chew-Bose.




Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed




















Or maybe something like "I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America."



Or maybe something like



From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah.




Alfred A. Knopf







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