In both 'mericans and response to executive order 9066 the writers define there identities not based off of heritage but where they relate the most. Both authors demonstrate it differently in the texts. In mericans they choose to compare how the grandma feels about american cultures. In the poem response to executive order 9066, Okita uses direct thoughts and the different opinions of others. While both texts have different approaches to defining how individuals view American identity they both even have similar devices used like the narrator’s own opinions and the way outsiders view them.

In Mericans, the author utilizes the emotions of both the grandmother and therefore the narrator to point out their opinions on how they see their identities. “The awful grandmother knits the names of the dead and therefore the living into one long prayer fringed with the grandchildren born therein barbaric country with its barbaric ways” (Cisneros).
While both texts have samples of alternative ways of conveying an identical theme there also are similarities within the texts that serve an equivalent purpose also . An example of this is often both authors use of the narrator’s opinions. “I gave her a packet of tomato seeds and asked her to plant them for me, told her when the first tomato ripened she’d miss me” (Okita lines 24-27)

Overall both authors use both different and similar ways of conveying the identical theme of identity isn't supported heritage but where one feels they relate and belong the foremost. Cisneros uses the methods of comparisons and popular culture to get her ideas across while Okita uses direct thoughts. While they both do different organization they also share some like narrators opinions. Lastly both authors are able to get their point of identity is up to every individual through similar and other ways.

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