in some sense of connection to Mexico, but he is far more an American at the end of the book than he was in the parts covering his childhood.
Two other aspects of the book weave in and out of the subject of assimilation. Those are the issue of gender and the issue of religion. For the Mexican family in this book, gender essentially involves the patriarchal control of the wife and children by the husband. However, the mother of the family is increasingly influenced by the dominant white culture, which hold
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