Accordion crimes
Racism and segregation among different races took place since the beginning of time, "Accordion Crimes" by E. Annie Proulx explores a similar situation of new immigrants coming to America seeking for a better life also known as the American dream but soon realize what its all about. The story spreads over about 100 years. The life that immigrants were living was very difficult. Racism and discrimination was part of every day life, it can be pretty similar to what Muslims have to go through since the catastrophe of September 11, 2001 that changed the world for ever. When new coming Italians arrived to United-States, they were all seen as part of some mafia, generalization was punishing those that had nothing to do with it like the Muslims today. What can be done to stop hatred between races? The easy answer is education, but that's not the only solution.In order to recreate the world of new immigrants coming to America Proulx didn't use traditional narrative style but instead tried to use fragmentation style by not giving full complete stories which didn't link to one another except of the accordion which was passed from family to family. By the traveling of the accordion we can see what went on in different houses (familie
The recent attack on America which took place in New York and Washington on September 11, was accomplished by a group pf people that did not accept the life style of Americans and their values and for those and other reasons they wanted to stop our capitalist system by using extremes measures. The description of what immigrants went through in the novel is in some sort what Muslims have to go through today after the attack. Muslims in America even though they are not related to the attacks are victims because people generalize all the time, its part o human nature. It's like in the boot when all Italians that came from Sicily were all categorized to be part of a mob. It's also similar to the situation of the Japanese that were living in North America during World War 2; since the United-States were at war with Japan, all American Japanese were taken into custody. The problem that Muslims face today is caused by the terrorists who use Muslim religion a reason for their acts an! s) since he was part of them for a moment. We have a feeling of violence in each story; in almost every story the ending finishes in a violent way; when Felix gets killed by a Japanese bomb, broken necks, car accidents and heart attacks. What those examples shows is that usually in poor environments the violence is more present then in rich and high educated neighborhoods. This is a proven fact, so when the television shows the camps of Bin Laden, let's not be fooled the reason is that those people a raised like that from a very young age to hate America or United states. That's when educa
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Approximate Word count = 1063
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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