In ten pages the search for cultural identity and the internal and external forces it generates are compared and contrasted in these two literary works. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography.
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must adjust to the culture of America. Each person in these books arrives in the United States for different reasons, yet each is faced with the difficulty of acculturation, trying
to find their identity in a world that is incredibly foreign to them. In the following paper we examine Kunta Kinte from "Roots" and Sundara from "Children of the River."
Each individual is examined separately as they evolve and search for identity in the new culture. The paper then provides a comparison and contrast of the two. Roots
The most obvious character in Haleys book who has to deal with internal and external changes due to a change in cultural surroundings is that of Kunta Kinte for he
is the young man who was stolen from his homeland and forcefully brought to the United States to become a slave. And, perhaps one of the mot important conditions associated
with this change comes to us in the knowledge that he was a teenager, essentially a man in his culture, when he was stolen away. This presents us with an
individual who already had incredibly strong notions of what he was, and where he would go in his life. But, all of these plans and expectations were to change as
he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in America, with a future that will surely
not be what he had expected. But, there is a very strong aspect of Kunta that will not allow those past expectations and dreams die. This offers us a very
basic understanding of the foundation of Kuntas relationship with his intrinsic desires as they will stand firm, to some extent, in the face of all extrinsic influences that occur due