READ “Two Ways to Belong to America” by Bharati Mukherjee from Models for Writers (also reproduced on our Moodle site under READINGS). She presents the opposing views of how she and her sister as immigrants relate to this country.
WRITE a letter to Mukherjee. As a way of generating the letter, respond to some key point made by Mukherjee in her article. In your letter, seek not to praise the writer but to earn the writer’s praise through your engaging, thoughtful analysis of the two points of view presented. Take a stand and explain why you support one sister’s position over the other. Again, if you can use a personal experience or compare these opposing views to Huttmann’s and/or Hughes’s dilemmas without losing focus, do so.