Journal #7

What does Mukerjee mean when she says, “The price that the immigrant willingly pays, and that the exile avoids, is the trauma of self-transformation”? How do you view your own self-transformation upon immigrating to the United States? Has it changed you in any way? What have you learned? 

Write eight to ten sentences to explain your answer using the article at least one time for evidence. 

Journal #7 Answer 

The trauma of self-transformation, in Mukerjee’s essay, reflects the confusion and diffusion of one’s identity because of the different culture and the different ways to achieve practical elements in life when one tries to become a U.S. citizen. Her experience explains how the trauma of self-transformation happens, and it shows how she regrets not her choices but rather the experience in itself. She does not feel belongingness, she feels her identity and culture is undervalued. She does not feel that she is part of the community where she married her husband.