Family's Equation

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The comparisons that the author uses to describe the family's situation is "Perhaps because we huddled together like a tiny Kazakh island in the middle of the great American sea." In this comparison the author is stating that since they are the only people they know from Kazakhstan they feel as they had no where to go and they were cornered. In conclusion the author compares them to an island in the middle of the great American sea. What the comparisons suggest about what life is like for recent immigrant in the United States is that for family s in the United States they feel as they were someone that the rest of the people did not care about . For example in my personal experience I have felt people stare at you with a look of disgust

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