Ellis Island To The Great War Analysis

Kathia Sosa
The Long Way Home An American Journey From Ellis Island To The Great War Monograph Essay
Lone Star College Cy-Fair

Laskin D. (2010) The Long Way Home An American Journey From Ellis Island To The Great War. New York. Harper. The Long Way Home an American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War is a book written by David Laskin about the struggles different immigrants went through over the period of coming to America and the Great War. Author David Laskin, graduated from Harvard, for literature and history. Laskin’s point of view in immigration is that when they came over to America, they helped improve the country by taking up jobs, and fighting with this country. When the immigrants started assimilating to America,
Living in the streets because his relatives could not care for him, a man named Brevda took him in. A decade later Epstein decided to go to America in search of his father. He traveled on the boat Lusitania, “the world’s fastest ship” where he was in the third-class cabin. Samuel Goldberg was 4 years old when he had to leave his home when the textile industry started to bloom. Along with his mother and siblings, they decided to move to America to look for a better future for themselves because “there’re was hopelessness of ever amounting to anything...poverty among the common people where we lived”, emphasizing that they had no future in Lodz (Laskin, 2010, p.21). Later traveling on the Campania. Epstein and Goldberg voyage to America were relatively different because while Epstein had the luxury of having “food prepares...flush toilets...and cabins with six berths”, Goldberg “slept in the same bed as the kids and his mother...the smell of steerage...and no bath, we kept the same clothes on the entire time” (Laskin, 2010, p.32). Both Goldberg and Epstein came to America looking for a better
Immigration is an important factor that had helped mold the America that is known today. Immigrants’ jobs, contribute to the economy, and may bring new skills with them learned in their country of origin. The service immigration has provided for America is the ability to thrive in ways that might not have occurred without it. The economy, for example, rose with the contribution of hard working immigrants in search of a better life in America. While assimilating to a different country may be difficult for new immigrants, it is certainly possible. Their assimilation brings together bits and pieces of their own culture and practices resulting in a diverse America we now know. This raises an important question, what today denes an