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Specifically Tizon uses emotion when writing, “First was the abandonment of our native language and our unquestioned embrace of English, even though for my parents that abandonment meant cutting themselves off from a fluency they would never have again” (Tizon 645). The very first thing Tizon tells the reader is what his family had to give up in order to be like an American. Tizon later took these extreme ideals, which changed his view of the world and wrote “Land of Giants”, which uses emotion and stories about that time period in order to show how his family had to go through many different changes in order to fit in with American life. Tizon faced many different changes like the things he did for fun, the way he looked and how he acted growing up in the United States as a child. Show More Alex Tizon born in the the Philippines immigrated to the United States with his family at a young age of four.
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