2nd English Essay
Gloria Lopez
5th period
19 Nov 2014
2nd English Essay
My sister is going to be a freshman next year. People compare us all the time.
When they meet her, however, the find out that she’s actually completely different from me.
I am more obsequious, while she is often more brazen and jejune, and not in a particularly good way. My sister is sporadically vocal about her feelings, or generally more vocal about things that I wouldn’t say aloud, whereas I’m more taciturn, albeit I’m gradually starting to speak more casually, where I used to be more polite. Sometimes I write or blog about my feelings. My sister at times talks about her feelings with myself and our 11-year-old brother, who really does not care who knows about his feelings (unless it’s about someone he fancies). People who know me from schools I have gone to, like, for example, grade school and middle school, expect my siblings to be akin to me.
It’s not just with me that some may think my siblings will be analogous to me, this occurs in stories, and literature with other people’s siblings and themselves as well.
‘Two Ways To Belong In America’, a personal essay written by Bharati Mukherjee, says: “In one family, from two sisters alike as peas in a pod, there could not be a wider divergence of immigrant experience. America spoke to me—I married it—I embraced the demotion from expatriate aristocrat to immigrant nobody, surrendering those thousands of ‘pure culture’, the saris, the delightfully accented English. She retained them all.” This tells us that, although siblings may grow up in a tantamount manner, they’re not carbon-copies of each other, they’re not going to have the same goals in life, they are not going to do the same in academia, they are not going to study the same things, and they are not going to, eventually, be in the same circumstances. Pertinent to this is the fact that while siblings can grow in and around the same culture (say, in the home), they can change their culture when they
grow
5th period
19 Nov 2014
2nd English Essay
My sister is going to be a freshman next year. People compare us all the time.
When they meet her, however, the find out that she’s actually completely different from me.
I am more obsequious, while she is often more brazen and jejune, and not in a particularly good way. My sister is sporadically vocal about her feelings, or generally more vocal about things that I wouldn’t say aloud, whereas I’m more taciturn, albeit I’m gradually starting to speak more casually, where I used to be more polite. Sometimes I write or blog about my feelings. My sister at times talks about her feelings with myself and our 11-year-old brother, who really does not care who knows about his feelings (unless it’s about someone he fancies). People who know me from schools I have gone to, like, for example, grade school and middle school, expect my siblings to be akin to me.
It’s not just with me that some may think my siblings will be analogous to me, this occurs in stories, and literature with other people’s siblings and themselves as well.
‘Two Ways To Belong In America’, a personal essay written by Bharati Mukherjee, says: “In one family, from two sisters alike as peas in a pod, there could not be a wider divergence of immigrant experience. America spoke to me—I married it—I embraced the demotion from expatriate aristocrat to immigrant nobody, surrendering those thousands of ‘pure culture’, the saris, the delightfully accented English. She retained them all.” This tells us that, although siblings may grow up in a tantamount manner, they’re not carbon-copies of each other, they’re not going to have the same goals in life, they are not going to do the same in academia, they are not going to study the same things, and they are not going to, eventually, be in the same circumstances. Pertinent to this is the fact that while siblings can grow in and around the same culture (say, in the home), they can change their culture when they
grow