'Lost Worlds Essay\r'

'Some Ameri dis runs remember where they came from; others weary’t. That’s the case in Daniel Chacon’s explanation â€Å"The Biggest City in the World”. It is a tale most Harvey Gomez who is a Mexican the Statesn unseasoned man whose grandparents migrated to the Unites States from Mexico. Harvey has only been to Mexico once in his holy life and neither of his parents has ever been there before. then he doesn’t know anything nearly his inseparable culture or language. In this fiction Harvey travels ample inside of Mexico for the offset printing time with his Mexican record prof David P.\r\nRogstart and gets exposed to its culture and language. On the contrary, Carolina hospital’s poem â€Å"Finding inhabitation” is about Mexicans who were born in Mexico and later migrated to the States. When Harvey arrives in Mexico he tries to distance himself from the agricultural’s culture. In fact, short after he acquires ou t of his hotel room the first place that he goes to is La Zona genus Rosa because â€Å"The expensive shops, Gucci, Polo, Yves St. Laurent, relaxed him because they reminded him of Beverly Hills” (Chacon 58).\r\nHarvey is waiver to places in Mexico that he is well-known(prenominal) with back in the United States and is non stressful to explore his hereditary pattern. Perhaps this is because he doesn’t odour wish well he is a Mexican and that he is only an American. After all, he was born and increase in the United States by parents who have never been to Mexico themselves. Harvey eventually gets exposed to ancient Aztec monuments when he runs into Professor Rogstart who is viewing stone carvings. As Harvey decides to take a closer look at the stone carvings, he is seeing history of his hereditary pattern and begins to compare it. Gomez wondered how many another(prenominal) Aztecs were scared into call back in their gods, like his stimulate tried to make him believe in saviour and the Virgin Mary” (Chacon 60).\r\nHe starts thinking how the Aztecs were raise up into worshiping their gods in Mexico and how his father brought him up into believing in God in America. Harvey learns about the Spanish Conquest of Mexico and begins to ask Professor Rogstart questions. He gives him ethical answers â€Å"Rogstart, feeling a professorial obligation, explained to Gomez the meaning of all(prenominal) panel, each symbol, giving such fine lucubrate” (Chacon 61).\r\nDuring the explanation, Harvey feels a sense of pride in his inheritance. You can tell that Harvey now wants to learn more about his past; however, he is still struggling to take in his heritage. As Harvey saves his journey in Mexico, he repeatedly distances himself from the Mexicans. Harvey is reacting this agency because he is attached to money. That go away in short enter to an end as Harvey himself loses all of his money. â€Å"He slipped his hand into his pocket for his roll of bills” (Chacon 63). After he realizes that he is broke, he starts to panic.\r\nHarvey’s immediate reply is to find his money no matter what it takes, precisely when he does not find it, Harvey starts to feel the equivalent way the Mexicans did when they begged him for money. This is the first time that he feels this way because he was raised in America where money is a major influence in life. When it looks like it will be the end of his journey in Mexico, he discovers it is beginning. Harvey enters a taxi and tells the driver â€Å" memorise me to the Zona Rosa” (Chacon 65). During the ride, Harvey is relaxed and begins to feel like a Mexican deep in his heart.\r\nWhen it seems that he is going to continue his denial, he tells the driver â€Å"Take me to Chapultepec super C” (Chacon 66). The cab driver is surprised and Harvey laughs telling him that he wants to explore Mexico. Harvey finally ends the denial of his Mexican heritage and goes on to explore Mexico. The poem â€Å"Finding Home” written by Carolina Hospital tells the story of how Mexicans who come to America try to find their heritage in the United States. Like many who migrate to America, the immigrants miss their country and are concerned about losing their culture.\r\nIn contrast to Harvey Gomez, this poem shows that many Mexicans in America appreciate their heritage. â€Å"I have travelled compass north again,/to these gray skies/and empty doorways,” (Hospital 101). This shows that they miss their native country and are concerned about obstructting their heritage. Perhaps Harvey’s grandparents thought the same thing when they first came to America from Mexico. Regardless of their arrival in America, they want to retrovert to Mexico someday. â€Å"I must travel again soon” (Hospital 102).\r\nDespite leaving their ative land they have complaisance for Mexico and will visit again. After the experience that Harvey had i n discovering his heritage, I am sure that he will visit Mexico again. Daniel Chacon is clearly making a program line that Mexican immigrants whose kids are born and raised in America forget their own culture. In the story Harvey Gomez is denying his heritage and was embarrassed at times to hold that he is Mexican. This is because he barely knows anything about Mexico and doesn’t even speak the language. Eventually Harvey accepts who he is and discovers his heritage throughout the story.\r\nI believe that Chacon wants to demonstrate how all-important(a) it is for people to know where they come from and not to forget who they are. Carolina Hospital indicates that Mexican immigrants in America continue to appreciate their heritage. In her poem the Mexicans are not embarrassed to admit where they come from. The Mexicans embrace their heritage and plan on visiting Mexico. I believe that Hospital wants to demonstrate that Mexicans immigrants do appreciate their heritage. even the fact is that no matter where people come from they must appreciate their heritage.\r\n'