Gary Shteyngart's Sixty-Nine Cents

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In the essay "Sixty-Nine Cents", Gary Shteyngart reveals the psychology of self-determination of immigrants and their descendants. For emigrants who left their native country in adulthood , it's very difficult to change their cultural and spiritual values that have been formed over the years. Whereas their children that abandoned the native country in the childhood, do not find it necessary to adhere to cultural traditions. In this essay, Shteyngart writes about his "new incarnation" (Shteyngart 53). Incarnation is a rebirth of the human soul. The author uses hyperbole to attract readers to changings in his life: he turns from Russian to American. Shteyngart writes about the three things that were the kind of naturalization ceremony for him:
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