Consider the connections you can make between "Freeway 280" by Lorna Dee Cervantes and" Once in a Lifetime
by Jhumpa Lahiri. Discuss the similarities and differences between the two texts concerning the themes of culture
and tradition.
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“Freeway 280” by Lorna Dee Cervantes and “Once in a Lifetime” by Jhumpa Lahiri are heavily influenced by the writers’ cultural upbringing. Both literary works use words from their respective cultures (Chicana in Cervantes’s case and Bengali in Lahiri’s case) and mix it with conventional English. Both authors also seek to better understand their identity and culture through their writing.

The focus differs for Lahiri and Cervantes, however. Cervantes is searching for her true identity, which seems to be lost where the freeway now stands. Lahiri examines the impact of her Bengali heritage and her American upbringing on her identity.

Explanation:

this is straight from Plato

in night, why are wiesel and his father evacuated from the auschwitz concentration camp? a massive escape makes the nazis question the security of auschwitz. they are assigned to work as laborers in a factory at another camp, buna. hitler has ordered that all remaining jews be relocated within german borders. the german army needs the camp guards to go to the battle front for a last-chance defense.