“It takes many good deeds to build a reputation and only one bad deed to lose it.”, quotes Benjamin Franklin. This quote is the only memory I have of my great-grandfather. Even though he passed away a long time ago, this quote haunts me every day that I am here in India. Every day from dawn till Isleep I have to make sure I behave like a good traditional Indian girl. Since I stepped off the plane, the pressure has been on since day one. Also, since I came from America, the pressure doubled because they expected me to be perfect. They thought I was the girl who always had good grades, loved dancing traditional Indian dances, and always dressed in formal clothes. I was actually the type who loved staying in a bathing suit on beaches all day. I loved hip hop dance but not Kuchupudi, a traditional Indian dance. I was born in India, but I was educated according to American customs. That didn't mean I hated India. It meant that I had both, America and India, inside me. My struggle to maintain an impeccable reputation is similar to Santiago's struggle to catch the giant marlin in Earnest Hemingway's most enduring work, The Old Man and the Sea. Santiago is the main character who has a fierce and determined battle with the giant marlin. The struggle to meet my family's expectations and my reputation is represented by the symbols of Santiago's struggle to catch the marlin in the book, Old Impressions Are Bound to Last. The goal is to give a good one, but I'm terrible at them. Before going through the customs section of the airport, I practiced exactly what I was going to say and chose a decent outfit to wear that presented me well. When I saw my family, I said "Namaste" and present... in the center of the paper... the struggle we all go through, the thought of the boy and the boy, representing hope, and finally the nose sharks shovel, which represent the minor conflicts that concern our external and internal struggles. These symbols in the story were analogous to the counterparts in my life and the struggle I went through. The biggest thing I had to worry about when I was in India was my behavior. When I was there I behaved the way my family expected me to normally behave. Even if my behavior in India doesn't match my personality in America, I'm fine with it. This is because it allows me to almost be two different people at the same time and offers me an adventure to explore new ideas and deal with different situations. After this summer I can forget it all together. Instead, I will use this summer as a lesson to better myself for the future.