Text One

Introduction to the Text

The text herein is used to describe the challenges that individuals go through as they try to get Americanised through the Green Card program. In “How To Get Your Green Card In America describes the experience of a young lady who goes to America for the first time through the program. Sarah Thankam Mathews is a 16-year-old girl who faces reality and discovers that life in Oman is different compared to that of the United States of America.

Main Idea and Argument

The author is experiencing the real picture of what immigrants go through when they try to integrate with the American culture. However, for them the only solution is to learn how to do it the hard way because its a dream come true. The author is using a sympathetic tone and a formal language with the aim of getting empathy and as well as proving her cause to her classmates and the authorities. The tone used overall in the text is humorous, but in a way, it is showing the disappointments she has with herself.

Supporting the Main Idea

The author uses figurative language to support the main idea to show how the experience is intense for her. Through the whole text, the author speaks of different experiences, with each experience in its single paragraph. She is making the use of similies “the old life, good and bad, rattles inside you like broken gadgetry, to probably invoke the feelings of the reader on precisely what it means to leave one culture and norms and adopt another one. She mentions how she is going to forget the shawarma and the ritual of shopping. At this point, her tone is exhibiting sadness since it entails her forgetting the life and experiences she had growing up.

Purpose of the Text

The author sounds like they want to go back, but an inner voice tells them to march forward, and this has pushed them to speak about how they feel. The audience in this text is immigrants interested in coming over to America. The young author intends to share her experiences and out of this prepare others who will follow on how they can easily integrate with the American life and culture and pitfalls to avoid. The overall mood and tone of the paper is empathetic.

Text Two

Introduction to the Text

The text is discussing a perfectionist mum who cannot eat horrible food and believes that all in the household should be able to prepare nice food. In “There’s no Recipe for Growing Up,” by Scaachi Koul shows a teen who is struggling to cook nice food like her mother’s recipe. For her, the cooking skills of her mother are enough to tether her at home.

Main Idea and Argument

The mother to the young teen is interested in the preparation of nice and traditional foods, and for her bad food is not an option. The daughter has grown up learning how to cook such meals, and if that is not enough, she had to carry some to her place. In some parts of the text, the daughter is worried that she can’t match her mother’s skills even after staying with her for that long and practicing to do the same. She is having a somber mood and a soft tone as she is still learning.

Supporting the Main Idea

The daughter is at times skeptical about bringing new cuisines to her place, but the mother feels that she cannot abandon her delicacies. Some of them are challenging to prepare and require attention and patience. The mother is obsessed with making the daughter great in the kitchen. To the daughter, cooking is second to the nature of the mother. Cooking requires patience, and the mother says “you can’t make this and be impatient.” The mother at this point is furious and angry with her as she seems not interested or ready to tap the knowledge. The tone of the author is worrisome as she is not aware of her mother’s next moves and course of actions.

Purpose of the Text

The text is used to show the importance of patience as well as show the sacrifice that mothers make to satisfy their families. It is also showing the tender care of mothers and how they are out to help their kids be the best. The mum is ready to walk with her daughter until she can do it correctly, “the color was right, “So, I guess you can do it yourself.” The mood here is celebratory and the tone informal.