Identity

Identity is what a person is like, what their personality is, how they react to situations, and how they interact with others around them. Identity can both stay constant and change. When people are around others, they change and their identities and personalities are changed and reformed and reshaped. But some people can have their identities stay the same, but for the most part they change. Gringolandia provides evidence to support my argument because when Marcelo goes through the changes in the concentration camps, he comes out of it as an older, and completely different person. Also, when the family leaves the only place they ever knew, Chile, they end up changed from the move to America. When Marcelo comes home and Tina sees him, her views on him completely change from having a young, loving father to an old, ratty, messed-up stranger.