North America Rhetorical Analysis

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In the beginning of the essay Mukherjee opens the essay with telling somewhat personal anecdotes that showcase how both sisters arrived to America and began their educations, Bharati studying creative writing and Mira become a child psychologist (272). Continuing by Mukherjee highlighting how Mira married an “Indian student” and was a “legal immigrant for 36 years” Mukherjee implies that Mira kept to her Indian roots and maintained a strong sense of cultural pride towards India rather than America (273). Likewise, by Mukherjee conveying how she, herself “married an American of Canadian parentage” and “in 33 years of marriage, we have lived in every part of North America,” one comes to the conclusion that even though Bharati was an immigrate