In the Ted Talk Grammar Identity and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive, Phuc Tran reflects on his past and how and how he immigrated to America and how it was hard learning english. Now that he is older he realizes that he should not focus on the things that could or could not happen but he should focus on the things that did or did not happen, ““ We all use the indicative and the subjunctive every day and we can be mindful of when we're blinded by the subjunctive and when we're overlooking the indicative around us. And this way of seeing the world, it has real force.” (Tran).
In Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok a mother and her daughter Kimberly Chang Immigrated from Hong Kong to America specifically New York. They came to America to have a better life. But when they arrived in America they moved into a rundown apartment which was not clean and had broken stuff everywhere including bugs and rats. Her Aunt Paula got them this apartment but she didn't specify the condition it was in,“out of the corner of my eye, I saw a scatter of brown slowly recede into the walls as we walked into the next room: live roaches” (Kwok 6).
When Immigrating to a new country, how might your character be disappointed or excited about their experience?
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