In lines 17-22 yang uses an allusion a reference to a famous person, place, event or literary work. what does the reference to the characters from the little house on the prairie, a classic american children’s book, suggest about how yang has begun to see herself? how does the family’s first house contribute to that self-image

Yang focuses on the plight of the immigrants.

Explanation:

From the poem, it seems that Yang is an immigrant of the Asian origin, from one of the Asian countries. Kao Kalina Yang, in her poems, shows the great contrast between the Western culture and the Asian culture. Moving from the Asian region to the west poses many challenges to Yang. This means that she has ti change the ways she perceives some things so that she can quickly adapt to the western culture. For example, Yang confronts the difference in the food as part of the differences. All in all, the in the extract of the lines from the poem, Yang basically talks about how the Asians in America struggle to become part of the American culture and leave their traditions for a while. It demonstrates the naivity associated with change.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.