Him leaving his family back in Santo Domingo with the false hope of working and sending for them to move to America for a better life is a representation of the mindset immigrants having moving to America. “He was twenty-four. He didn’t dream about his familia and wouldn’t for many years. He dreamed instead of gold coins, like the ones that had been salvaged from the many wrecks about our island, stacked high as a sugar cane” (169). Diaz is displaying the fathers current thinking at the time imagining fulfilling the financial aspect of the American dream. The author uses spanish here when talking about his family using “familia” cause its close to his heart and in his first language. I feel he uses spanish is whenever it is the most inherent word to come to mind. Him sharing this reflective inner dilemma shows conflict in feeling obligatory to his family, but really wants to maximize his own personal
Him leaving his family back in Santo Domingo with the false hope of working and sending for them to move to America for a better life is a representation of the mindset immigrants having moving to America. “He was twenty-four. He didn’t dream about his familia and wouldn’t for many years. He dreamed instead of gold coins, like the ones that had been salvaged from the many wrecks about our island, stacked high as a sugar cane” (169). Diaz is displaying the fathers current thinking at the time imagining fulfilling the financial aspect of the American dream. The author uses spanish here when talking about his family using “familia” cause its close to his heart and in his first language. I feel he uses spanish is whenever it is the most inherent word to come to mind. Him sharing this reflective inner dilemma shows conflict in feeling obligatory to his family, but really wants to maximize his own personal