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Culture doesn’t change us, we change ourselves. The essay ‘two ways to belong in America’ by Bharati Mukherjee clearly demonstrates this statement. The author contrasts her American lifestyle to her sister’s Indian traditional life. Born in 1940 and raised in India, Bharati Mukherjee immigrated to the USA where she taught literature and fiction at the University of California, Berkeley. ‘Two ways to belong in America’ was written to address a movement in congress to take away government benefits from resident aliens. ‘Why bother?’ is a question people ask when confronted with living choices to reduce carbon footprint. Wendell berry a farmer and writer from Kentucky diagnosed the problems of industrial civilization as being too much specialization. Climate change is the result of cheap energy hence making it impossible to conquer climate change in our own lives (Michael Pollan).

Both essays use conversational language. Both Pollan and Mukherjee both address their readers directly. Their message is precise, understandable and relatable to the audience. The two sisters converse in a way that two sisters would in this age and time.

The two essays talk about being virtuous. A sense of personal virtue is demonstrated in both essays with an act of personal environmental responsibility in ‘why bother’. Mira and Bharati are both vitreous. They endure life and live politely with each other despite their differences. They are hardworking, well raised sisters.

In both essays the tales are about real people who lived around 40 years ago. The essay ‘don’t bother’ talks about a Wendell berry a Kentucky farmer analysed the moral imperative regarding environmental crisis. In the Two ways of belonging to America’ Mira and Bharati have lived in the USA for 35 years. The two sisters have attended school and worked very hard as immigrants.

In both essays there is difference in opinion in how to approach different solutions of a problem. Mira and Bharati have different ways of living as expatriates. One is susceptible to changes as an American while the other is not changed by her society. In ‘why bother’, people have to bother in order to ensure progress in our specific communities and eventually nationally. The two sisters don’t do much to change the state of the immigrant situation. They are polite. In why bother, there is self-reliance and need to participate in change making.

The message being passed along in this two essays is that there is need to be politically correct and aware.

The two sisters Mira and Bharati are politically aware and know what is happening and the USA and how it affects them. In why Bother, Pollan tends to show that his protagonists are aware of their surroundings and what they should do to change the situation at hand.

The main differences between these two essays is the topic of discussion for both. Two ways of belonging to America discusses the topic of immigration and two sisters who support each other as new entrants into a new world. ‘Why bother’ is basically a discussion about the environment and how to conquer climatic change.

While the message for each essay share many similarities, they are not exactly the same. The two authors are rigid in their way of thinking in regard to solutions. Pollan seems to assume that everyone should go green so as to save the environment. On the other hand, Murkherjee has diverse ways of solving issues. He lets both the sisters choose different ways to think about the situation.

Change is the main idea of living a better life. We discover both authors and their texts and how they are intertwined. We also discover the importance of political awareness as well as the importance of virtue to be able to understand situations. The two texts also explore living and situations back few years ago. This is not merely a coincidence. The two authors tackle the same period to write about critical issues. Pollan discusses climatic change and why people should bother while murkherjee tackles the issue of immigration and politics and its effects on the lives of two different individuals of the same descent adapting differently to being immigrants. The differences in both texts is also discussed. The critical topics of immigration and climatic change are discussed.

The two literally works leave a reader tingling with excitement and new thoughts about the subject’s immigration and environment. Two ways to belong to America is a better piece of work according to my assessment. When you read the author, you sense a mind invested in an authentic voyage to grapple with complex existential issues. She does not only tackle immigration. She deals with sisterhood, accomplishment and change in such an easy way that a reader is really intrigued to know more about what really happened to the sisters. What really surprises me is her delivery through the use of direct language. She does it so well you feel like the story is happening at the now. According to my understanding the writer adequately maps out power dynamics in this perceptive piece. The article is fundamentally alright but MHKHARGEE wrecked its own premise immediately after take-off rendering its fairly cogent body, little misplaced. All in all, two ways to belong to America is a flawless immigrant narrative bound to relate to most immigrant stories now.