English Unseen Prep- Immigrant Chronicles

Question 1

Struggles of assimilation

Answer 1

Acceptance with conditions; still seen as other after assimilation- neither fully to this country nor homeland. loss of heritage stripped of cultural
stuck in a liminal space that can corrode ones identity and sense of self

Question 2

Struggle to reconcile past and present selves:

Answer 2

• sense of self can feel unstable or fragmented.
• Can lead to feelings of existentialism or identity crisis
• Loss of confidence
• Self esteem issues

Question 3

In-betweenness

Answer 3

• **No longer fully understand/ belong to Homeland or new land. **
• feelings of rootlessness and alienation.
• cannot understand world around them or themselves.
• Cultural dissonance or internal conflict, and existential confusion
• Drift wood metaphor

Question 3

Lack of assimilation

Answer 3

Social exile, lack of belonging, can lead to lack of opportunities

Question 4

Loss of home, language, family, traditions

Answer 4

• shattered sense of safety and belonging.
• Can lead to emotional dislocation even when physically settled and nostalgia for what was left behind.
• Feel like a piece of yourself if forever missing
• Stripped of all emotional security- everything ther ever knew is gone

Question 5

Clashes between generation

Answer 5

• Want to assimilate versus preserve heritage.
• Different social and cultural environments lead to different values which can limit understanding.

Question 6

migrants politicized, dehumanized and struggle to be seen, heard or valued.

Answer 6

• Reduce feelings of belonging
• Corrode self esteem, wear down a secure identity as a migrants made internalise these slogans.
• Migrants can feel invisible and compelled to prove their worth, overshadowing dreams and opportunities.
• Being compelled to prove ur worth overshadowed dreams and opportunties through exhaustion, and distraction from your true goals. because you’re stuck trying to meet others’ expectations or prove you “deserve” to be where you are.
• Societal exile- mistreatment

Question 7

Memories/ story telling

Answer 7

Memory as a way to preserve culture
Poetry as a way of reclaiming lost voices and resisting erasure

Question 8

Adaptation and growth- new life

Answer 8

• Building new lives and communities
• Finding strength in difference
• Reclaiming cultural identity through language, food, or memory + integration of different cultures
• Resilience
• Hybrid identities
• Multicultural environment

Question 9

Resilience of migrants

Answer 9

• integrating into to unfamiliar environments while still holding on to parts of their original identity.
• it’s about rebuilding a life, often from scratch,
• creating meaning in a space where they may initially feel alien or unwelcome.

Question 10

Enjambment and Free Verse

Answer 10

The lack of structure mirrors the speaker’s loss of control. Thoughts flow unpredictably, blurring reality and emotion.
–> Internal conflict, existentialism, derealisation, ect.

Question 11

Feeling different/ foreign from environment

Answer 11

*Symbolizes her cultural and emotional incongruity with her surroundings.
*Physically present in a place but emotionally absent — cut off by language, memory, and cultural rupture.