Personal Narrative: Lost In Translation
One of the most challenging things a person can experience is leaving everything you’ve ever known behind and starting completely over somewhere else. Eva does this in the Lost in Translation by moving from Poland all the way to Canada when she is just a teenager. When I was sixteen years old my family moved from Minnesota to Texas. This isn’t quite as drastic of a change as in Lost in Translation, but many of the things Eva experienced I can relate with even if I just crossed numerous state line borders. Eva says “My mother says I’m becoming “English.” This hurts me, because I know she means I’m becoming cold.” I’ve realized as I’ve lived in Texas for the last four years I’ve started to say stuff and do things I would have never done in Minnesota.
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Everyone’s house seemed to be very similar and car they would drive was relatively the same when it came to cost. Even if people were wealthy, they didn’t flaunt it and have these luxurious items. The town I live in Texas is also a small town, but there are so many differences than the small town in Minnesota. There are multi-million dollar homes in my new town and people drive luxurious sports cars around town. Not only are there extremely wealthy people, but there are also those that are quite poor. Class systems can change drastically from where you live and Eva saw this first hand when she moved from Poland and went to live with the Rosenberg’s. My experience moving to Texas from Minnesota was very similar to Eva’s in many ways. The change I experienced wasn’t close to as drastic as Eva’s was, but I still faced many of the same things. No matter the location and how great it seems to be, there is always a sense of longing for one’s past because it’s familiar. Also, the longer one lives in the new place the more they are going to start picking up that place’s ways. Eva’s mother said that she was becoming English and “cold.” So I guess that means that I’m slowly becoming Texan, whether I like it or
Everyone’s house seemed to be very similar and car they would drive was relatively the same when it came to cost. Even if people were wealthy, they didn’t flaunt it and have these luxurious items. The town I live in Texas is also a small town, but there are so many differences than the small town in Minnesota. There are multi-million dollar homes in my new town and people drive luxurious sports cars around town. Not only are there extremely wealthy people, but there are also those that are quite poor. Class systems can change drastically from where you live and Eva saw this first hand when she moved from Poland and went to live with the Rosenberg’s. My experience moving to Texas from Minnesota was very similar to Eva’s in many ways. The change I experienced wasn’t close to as drastic as Eva’s was, but I still faced many of the same things. No matter the location and how great it seems to be, there is always a sense of longing for one’s past because it’s familiar. Also, the longer one lives in the new place the more they are going to start picking up that place’s ways. Eva’s mother said that she was becoming English and “cold.” So I guess that means that I’m slowly becoming Texan, whether I like it or