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The name jar by yangsook choi read aloud5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() A critical reading of these picturebooks allows readers to identify an assimilationist ideology. The analysis reveals that although the picturebooks may offer real-life experiences of immigrant children, the protagonists respond in different ways to their name changes. Consequently, they demand substituting the Korean spelling with English spelling and changing the name to an American one. ![]() Texts such as My Name is Yoon (Recorvits & Swiatkowska, 2003) and The Name Jar (Choi, 2001) present two Korean girls’ arrival in a new school environment that has difficulty pronouncing their names. ![]() This paper examines the implementation of assimilation ideology in picturebooks. ![]()
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