Author Archives: ravi.kadia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTlWWocH51Y

By: Ravi

Im on ebscohost and i found an article and realized that they cite it for you just click on cite and scroll down to MLA

I was reading “art of contact zone” (because i didn’t read it before) and i was thinking that New york city has tons of contact zones. Then i realized all of America is contact zones because its a huge melting pot of cultures and that a lot of cultures intermingle with each other and make a new culture. Its sort of like combining colors, each color is a culture and mixing them would make thousands of different colors. I found this picture on the internet (disregard the citizenship) and i realized that not ever culture has equal rights there is still racism around trying to prevent a culture from expressing itself . It sort of persuades me to look into other cultures and see what their  like and since i go to New York City a lot its a lot easier for me.

At this point Oskar starts his journey to find his fathers hint. By using this “key” he is trying to keep the memory of his father alive for a long time. I believe that this is very important to Oskar because of how much he cares about his father and how much he misses him. His father was everything to him and by keeping the memory alive its like keeping his father alive throughout this journey. I believe that the more people he visits the more mature he is getting sort of like where everyone is a stepping stone to his ladder of maturity. Although I do not believe in a realistic world that the mother would let her 9 year old child walk around New York City and not question him. I personally believe that the mother knows about whats happening and making sure he doesn’t find out.