What Is Your Immigrant’s Song? Developing a Theme.

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What Is Your Immigrant’s Song? Developing a Theme

Steal a Line.What does this line show about the immigrant experience? “It’s always pressure.” Life in America is stressful and not what he/she expected. There are expectations that this person cannot fulfill.

Steal a Line.What does this line show about the immigrant experience? “Ghosts that will hunt you.” This person cannot forget her past. She thought that coming to America would help her forget the past, but it hasn’t.

Steal a Line.What does this line show about the immigrant experience? “In America people take advantage of you, I don’t like to think about the past.” This person feels taken advantage of and has a negative experience she doesn’t want to remember.

What will be your theme?  “In America people take advantage of you, I don’t like to think about the past.”  “We had a beautiful house. We had to leave it. We lived only with the little things we had.”  “American women vacuum their houses in high heels.”  “My life should not be like that.”  “It’s always pressure.”  “I want them to know where their daddy came from.”  “The prince that never was.”  “Gracias, a dios si llegamos todos bien.”  “I knew I had to move on with my life.”  “What we had to take, what we had to leave.”  “Ghosts that will hunt you.”  “Follow that balloon.”  “Avoid the crossfire.”  “I wanted to be brave for myself.”