I believe our identity changes over time. Actually, it can be changed at any moment. It is because there are always factors that can affect our identity around us. I think the environment around us has a very big effect on our identity. In fact, my identity at school and my identity at home are different. At school, my identity is more international. But at home, it’s more like Japanese. I think we change our identity depends on the environment around us to adapt to the culture or mood of the environment.  Otherwise, you will be the only one who is different from others and it doesn’t feel great. If you are fitting to the environment, you feel somehow comfortable. But adapting to the new environment is not easy as everything is new and different to you.

I think this sort of “difficulty of fitting into the new environment” was the issue for Gandhi as well. He wrote his experience as memoir and it tells everything of what he felt. He spent all his time in India until he comes to UK. Obviously, many things are different from what he had experienced before. His memoir starts with the story regarding to his diet. He is a vegetarian and almost everyone else is not. He was struggling at the restaurant, “With considerable hesitation I told him that I wanted to inquire if the soup was a vegetable soup.”. It is hard to tell about your difference to others. To get rid of that different, you may change your habit but it is very difficult, and sometimes, it can’t be changed like Gandhi’s diet. I can see how he is struggling in his new environment.

After that moment, he says, “I would be clumsy no more, … And for this purpose I undertook the all too impossible task of becoming an English gentleman. “. From here, he decided to adapt to his new environment. He buys clothes and a hat like a British gentleman, learn how to dance, and etc… Then he realises, he is there for study, not to be like a British. He chose not to fit in the environment too much and decided to focus on his actual objectives.

I think what he wants to say from this is that you don’t have to try so hard to fit in the environment and just be yourself. Otherwise, you forget your main objective. Even though you try so hard, you can’t be one of them, you are just playing like them. This idea was already stated in the title using Allocations.

This one pretty long memoir but he used some humor like, “But Mr. Bell rang the bell of alarm in my ear and I awoke.”. Those plays of words bring comedy into memoir and makes readers more fun to read.