Child of the Americas Essay

In the poem, nestling of the Americas, Aurora Morales uses the literary element of repetition to illustrate how unalike cultures around the world can lift together and become sensation as a whole. I am a child of the AmericasI am a U. S. Puerto Rican Jew I am not Africa. Africa is in me I am not European. Europe lives in me I am new. accounting made me I am whole, (Morales). Morales use of repetition illustrates all of the antithetic characteristics she feels in her life. By using I am, Morales fancys how she actually is a child of the Americas and a U.S. Puerto Rican Jew, however, she uses I am not to explain how she is not Africa nor European, but she believes Africa and Europe are part of the person she has become. The different ethnicities and locations mentioned show how each part of the world has influenced her way of being. Morales states that history has led her to enough the person she is today. The conclusion of Morales poem ends with I am whole demonstrating that e veryone has a piece of a culture in them that make them whole, no issue where they come from.Throughout, Child of the Americas Morales exemplifies how one person can have legion(predicate) cultures, be different ethnicities, or come from several locations, and still come together with other parts of the world and be a whole. Citations Morales, Aurora. Child of the Americas by Aurora Levins Morales. Child of the Americas by Aurora Levins Morales*. (2011) n. page. Web. 23 May. 2013. .