Thursday, September 16, 2010

In Lucy Jamaica kincaid

The first things that Lucy notice when she arrived to the United States was that the U.S.A wasen't exactly the way she imagine it was. Lucy imagine the United States more as a perfect place as she describes as a"fixture fantasy".That change as she arrive to the country it was like if the fantasy that she had was vanish with the reality.
              Lucy saw the places that she had imagine as beautiful in her imagination to be as she describes "ordinary and dirty". She also describes her first experience of using the elevator as something new to her that she haven't done before.The things that Lucy was able to notice as well was the difference in the food which was very different since in her home town she didn't use a refrigerator. This was also a new experience for Lucy in which shows that she disliked the food since she describes it as "day-old food that have been stored in a refrigerator".
            The weather was also a new thing for lucy since she was use to the warm climate of her country and she had to get use to a different climate which was colder since Lucy came during the season of winter.Lucy felt trapped in her room because  she didn't have enough space to move around as she had in her country in which she live in a house. As lucy was working she started to notice that her life was transforming into a routine in which she had to do the same things everyday as taking care of the childrens and attending school at night.
          Lucy story relates to another stories that I have heard in the way that people imagine the United States as being an ideal country which is not true because every country haves it's bad and good things. I can also relate the experience of Lucy trapped in the same routine with experiences I have heard from other people. A lot of people come to the United States in search of new opportunities such as jobs and sometimes this makes people fall in the same routine of working and doing the same things daily.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Miriam -

    Nice reflections and details! You're right that routine and the difficulties of work life are a big factor. You'll be reading more about the different expereinces of immigrant workers throughout the semester.

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