The author’s lives before new cultures could be identify as …show more content…
During the years that nothing new has being introduced into Suina and Rodriguez’s lives that can change their way of thinking and what they believing. In the article “And then I went to school” written by Joseph Suina, he illustrates how peaceful and without stress his life was before electricity entered into his Pueblo. Suina himself writes, “I listened to one of her stories or about how it was when she was a little girl… she softly sang a song for a ceremony. In this way, I went off to sleep each night.” in other words, what Suina was trying to show us in this quote is how peaceful his life was without electricity and without a new culture enter into his life. Adapting to the American lifestyle was difficult for Suina and Rodriguez because they did not know the language, how to act, and how to think as Americans. Not knowing how to act and think as Americans will affect their identity because they will try to fit in and as consequence they will change who they are. In the article ‘Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”