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Summary/Analysis 1 “True Colors” is a story of Christine Granados when she was a teenager. Her family came to America from Mexico, but Christine always wanted to make her lifestyle “more American” while her mother still kept Mexican culture. She wasn’t satisfied with her home because it didn’t look like her American neighbors, except her front yard. One day, her mother put three frog statues there. She asked her boyfriend to steal them and throw them away because she couldn’t let those statues ruin her pride, or her only typically American place. She also repainted their garage doors to white after her mother made them glow by yellow color. When she became a mother, she had the same her mother’s taste in decorating. However, she listened to her son’ suggestions instead of keeping her ideas. The colors in the story are not only about their house’ walls, doors or the statues, but they also mention about the differences in Mexican and American cultures. The writer experienced her childhood between two cultures, so she had the comparison and imitation in her lifestyle. Although her mother still lived with their customs, she obsessed with living as a typically American person because she was young and didn’t understand about cultural blending. However, when she was a mature woman, she was aware of cultural diversity, and she knew how to live with this problem. I see myself in this piece, and so do many immigrants, I believe. America is a country of diversity in race, religion, gender, culture, and so on. We don’t have to become anyone. We have freedom to live with our traditional customs instead of following American people’ habits because there is nothing called American standards. As this piece, there is nothing called “true colors” which makes her become an American. True color is the color she loves, and her best version is herself. Forgetting our hometown’ habits and customs doesn’t help us to integrate. Doing what make us comfortable is the most positive way to live happily....