Our first experiences have a big impact on how we see things from then on. According to By Any Other Name, An Indian Father's Plea and Two Ways to Belong in America. In the passage An Indian Fathers Plea, his son Wind Wolf begins to hate who he is because he is being bullied in school for it. From the way he has his long beautiful Native American hair to not wanting to attend the festivals they have in his culture. "Yesterday for the third time in two weeks he came home crying and said he wanted to have his hair cut" The children tormented him and the teacher called him a "slow learner" He was being teased because of his culture, so Wind Wolf wanted to cut his hair so they'd leave him alone and so he could fit in. I'm assuming his first experience in a west coast public school was terrible and heartbreaking. This negative first experience made such a big impact on him that this poor little five year old wanted to throw away who he used to be and its a shame.
In the passage By Any Other Name, two Indian sisters by the names of Premila & Santha, go to a public American school and experience first hand the judgmental and cruel words and actions of their classmates and own teacher. Right off the…show more content… They start from each other as life takes each ones hand and leads the away to their paths. One sister goes to college and takes full advantage of being a US citizen after 35 years, the other is not, and just does whatever because she realized she does not like America as she does India. She realized India was her real home. "If America wants to play the manipulative game, I'll play it too" what divides the two sisters is the current debate over the status of immigrants. They take different sides. They've both had different experiences that define them and their own decisions. "I am an American citizen and she is
