A Comparative Essay: “Abuela Marielita” and“Thanksgiving in a Monsoonless Land”

Life isn’t easy for many people around the world. Some of them stay their lives in their native countries but some have even harder time in their lives because they left their countries and go to a new country like the United States. Life is harder for them as the immigrants to survive in a new place. “Thanksgiving in a Monsoonless Land” a memoir by Roshni Rustomji and “Abuela Marielita” a short story by Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes are two stories that illustrate two different immigrants survivals in America during 20th century. “Thanksgiving in a Monsoonless Land” took place in a hospital room of South San Francisco and Mexico. “Abuela Marielita” took place in Florida during the 1980’s. Both main characters are similar; they both expressed the way they live as immigrants in the United States. A good life in America isn’t easy to be obtained. They completely show the same idea through out the stories. Immigrants to the United States acquire certain advantages in th...