Claire Barbour: Immigrants by Pat Mora

-In order to capture the true "American Life" Pat Mora uses stereotypical phrases dealing with the American way of life such as" Blonde dolls that blink blue", "hot dogs and apple pie." By doing this he captures the ideas that immigrants have about America, and also their desires to be one of Americas citizens. He creates a stressful tone by conveying their everyday stresses for their children to be looked at as every day American children.

-Mora conveys the immigrants desires by putting us in their head and showing wat they see when they think of America. Therefore stereotypes concerning this topic, allowed the reader to feel what exactly it was that the immigrants expected when they moved to America.