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Theme Of Family Reunion By Barbra Krasner

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The story “Family Reunion” by Barbra D. Krasner tells the story of a young girl named Angelina immigrating from Italy to America to see her father. The story’s overall suspenseful and anxious since Angelina is not sure if she’ll be able to get into the country to see her father. Though, at both the beginning and the end of the story we see a joyful version of Angelina. Krasner creates a joyful and expecting tone in paragraphs one and 22 to create a contrast in tone to convey the strength of Angelina’s emotions and justify her reasoning for having so much dread attributed to being deported. The vibrant feel of both the beginning and the end of “Family reunion” Is utilized as a device to convey the intensity of Angelina’s emotions. ”Angelina Palmieri’s heart pounded so hard, she thought it would pop out of her chest. She was going to see Papa again!” Angelina hasn’t seen her father in four years and she is overjoyed about being able to meet him again. Krasner makes her feelings more intense structurally too. By putting paragraphs at the beginning and end that contrasts so heavily with the rest of the story, she makes Angelina’s emotions stand out. …show more content…

Crasner makes it very apparent that Angelina is extremely anxious throughout the story “What if she or Mama or her sisters were not allowed to enter this new country? Would she ever see them or Papa again?” Angelina starts off with immense joy attributed to seeing her dad. Then she sees that there is a chance she could be taken away from her family by being deported and she starts to get anxious. This backing of her anxieties makes her worries feel realistic to the reader. Having a fear of being separated from your family is one a lot of people

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