“American Son” is a novel that depicts the immigrant life of Asian Americans. The main characters in this novel are two mixed teenage brothers and their Filipino mother who does not understand their lifestyle. The topic of the story is the conflict between the two different generations.
The mother wanted the sons to grow up with the ability to create their own “American Dream.” She wanted to give her sons all of the opportunities that she was not able to receive in the Filipinos. One son, Tomas, started to associate himself in the gang lifestyle and started to give his mother and family shame to his Filipino roots. In the mother’s eyes, she did not try her hardest to fit into the American culture, and this in return caused her children to become the way they are. The ignorance that the mother displayed throughout the novel caused the boys to choose their own paths of their American Dream. The boys had a very hostile depiction of the different cultures that surrounded them causing them to behave in the manner they did.
Although the two songs were completely different from one another they still created their own American Dream. When it comes down to it, the novel depicted the California culture. The novel gives us the real time perspective of how the California Dream is not how we depict it to the rest of the world.
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