Complete System Integration

Audience: Readers of Two Kinds

Purpose for addressing the audience: The readers of this story have the background information to know where this point is coming from. Due to the high chance of many of these readers being immigrants, or children of immigrants, they may either have gone through this or are going through it today. This essay will give them an opinion on the matter and may even change their thinking.

Work Count: 1,355

Becoming You

Prompt 1

The definition of America can vary from person to person. For some, America can only be defined as their homeland, the land they were born in. For others, it can be much more. For others, America can be defined as the land that had changed their world. Regardless of the reasons for someone to be coming to America, America was a land thought to have promising opportunities. THEME: America would make all of their dreams come true .THEME: Another view of America, or something that America teaches us, is that we can become independent or that we can become our true selves for what we are. We see examples of these definitions in “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. The mother in this story strives to fulfill this American dream through her daughter. Her daughter on the other hand, although perceived as a brat, is in the mission of finding herself. THESIS: As we come to see, these two missions are what seem to hold the story together clashing with one another along the way.

The mother’s American dream is pushed by more than something as simple as the promise of the land. We see the reason in the very beginning of the story through her history. America was where all of the mother’s hopes lay in, and her daughter was what the mother hoped would fulfill her American dream (Tan and Schneider 41). We find out that “she had come