Pg. 62 "All of us immigrants knew that moving to America would be fraught with challenges, but none of us thought that our names would be such an obstacle."
I chose this quote because she explains that the Iranian names are much different than American names and that Americans have a very hard time pronouncing them. Also, people gave mean nicknames because it sounds similar to their names. This is why She wanted to get an American middle name. In Children of the River, Sundara did not have that problem. Her name was not that difficult to pronounce. Since I am American I do not have that problem either, people just ask how to spell it because it's French.
Pg. 65 "I felt like a fake"
I thought this was important because she has decided to change her name to an American name so people could actually pronounce it and remember it. This worked for a while, but soon she got caught up with her family calling her Firoozeh and her work friends calling her Julie. She finally went back to her real name and learned to get used to people messing up her name.
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