Assimilate the New Culture The Smolinski family in Bread Givers was a typical immigrant family who faced struggles during the assimilation process. By looking at Sara and her father's perspectives that there is a gap of cultural differences and generational differences separated between them, where most immigrants' family faces. As a child of immigrant Sara was bound by her native culture, but she unlike her other sisters took the courage and effort by abandoning her …showed first 75 words of 551 total…

…showed last 75 words of 551 total…made my choice. And now I had to pay the Price." By seeing Sara's typical assimilation process she had struggled cultural and generational differences between her and her father. Despite of the oppression her father's old culture and old ideas, but Sara finally broke through the barrier of her own culture to assimilate the new American culture. She had paid her youth, hardship, family separation in order to have in hand her dream and desire.