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PAPA, THE PHILOSOPHER

 I have chosen this article because its topic is about relationship between the father and the son from Italy living in America, in other words it mainly focus on main character’s experience as an emigrant. In the beginning, the boy’s innocent view to the life is described. Then it turns to frustration on life and his origins, when he grew to adolescence.  At that, time he feels distressed even from his name and his classmates’ discrimination and underestimation was the main reason of his eruption. Next turning point of his life happened in the bathroom, where his father explains realities of the life and his son’s role in it. The father there asks to his son very simple question whether he wants to be as rude as the ones who have hurt him morally by laughing and swearing. I found his father’s question very meaningful because sometimes we desire to resemble to others without knowing who they are in reality. To illustrate, most of the teenagers nowadays want to dress like, seem like their favorites, however most of them are not aware of the fact that they are concealing their personality under it.  What is more, being an emigrant should not make one isolated or underestimated to me since it has much more advantages rather than disadvantages. For example, the one has an advantage to become bilingual of at least two languages as the father mentioned in the article to his son that his son is not just real Italian similarly he is an American. Finally, I liked the topic of the article, which the author named as “papa, the philosopher”. From here, I can come up with two main ideas, first that his father a philosopher and second that he feels enough confident to call his father as “papa” in Italian.