When immigrants move to the United States, they are searching for a better life than the one they were dealt. What they do not expect are the problems they will experience while doing so — especially problems within themselves. Using my own personal experience with feeling that I didn’t fully belong and representations in Sandra Cisneros’s 1983 novel The House on Mango Street Julia Alvarez’s 1991 novel How the García Girls Lost Their Accent, I will demonstrate how young Hispanic/Latino girls experience identity crises because of their different cultures clashing.

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