Here is my attempt for a response:
Text 2 invites the reader to share the character's emotion during his experience of moving home by illustrating the personally emotional connection the character has in his individual experience of changing homes to America and the subsequent transformation into a matured individual.
The personal language "I was eleven years old at the time" establishes the personal reflection the character makes in their recollection of moving homes, and so the value this memory has in identifying themselves. Coupled with the repeated use of past tense verbs ("passed", "went", "remarried"), Text 2 emphasises the character's journey to be something of the past, and so invites the reader to do the same by connecting to their experience of moving home, knowing moving homes is a collective human experience. With the metaphor "there was a sea of lights in every direction," Text 2 illustrates the confusing excitement the character experienced in moving home into Miami, becoming drowned by the hustle and bustle of this city in beginning their transformation into a matured individual.
In presenting the character's transformation into a matured individual, Text 2's use of symbolism in the JCPenney suit represents the maturation of the character, now an adult who has succeeded in working at a respectable job. Ending with Mami's highly-modal dialogue "I know how proud your mother is right now," Text 2 establishes the transformative effect moving home has provided for the character as they are forced to adapt to unseen conditions, which being a collective human experience invites the reader to share the character's emotions in moving home.