Abstract
Sadia Shepard’s Foreign-Returned talks about the life of Pakistani immigrants in America, especially Hasan, who struggle to live a better life in the U.S. American values become the main focus in this study to see their influences in certain characters’ point of view of this short story. The data are selected conversations and the narrations in Sadia Shepard’s Foreign-Returned as well as traditional American values and the sociological data of Pakistani Diaspora in America in the 2000s. This research reveals that most of the characters, both first- and second-generation Pakistani immigrants, practice American values in certain ways. However, values are fluid. Not everyone in the U.S.A believes in American values; on the other hand, non-Americans are possible to practice American values. In brief, how much the American values influence the characters' minds and behavior does not depend on whether they are first- or second-generation immigrants.
Highlights
Not everyone in the U.S.A believes in American values; on the other hand, non-Americans are possible to practice American values
People believe that America offers them a promising future for everyone who wants to make a significant difference in their life, and this is popularly known as the American Dreams (Datesman et al, 2005; Wang & Fan, 2013)
The data on Pakistani diaspora in America in the 2000s (Considine, 2018; Quraishi, 2019) are taken as well as the terminologies related to immigrant integration, traditional American values and elements of literature are used to give a clear explanation on the depiction of American values in the short story
Summary
People believe that America offers them a promising future for everyone who wants to make a significant difference in their life, and this is popularly known as the American Dreams (Datesman et al, 2005; Wang & Fan, 2013). This belief triggers lots of people around the world are eager to be in America to pursue their dreams. For many Americans, is an integral part of their own identity and it has vital functions within American culture (Kasiyarno, 2014). Americans trusted and asked for the American Dream to become a reality in which there was space for solidarity and humanity
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