Immigrants in America

One City, One Dream In my home country I heard that: America is a place where dreams can come true. This is the reason why my family immigrated to America and settled in Queens five years ago. Everyone in the world wants to have a bite of this big apple, New York City. But the path to make this dream come true is long and difficult. The two articles, “America and I” by Anzia Yezierska and “New York Was Our City On The Hill” by Edwidge Danticat, fully express the hardships of the immigration journey. Struggles with work, money, illness, and poverty are themes these two stories share. On the road to their dream, does immigrants have to face more obstacles and give up their past in order to success. In the story, “America and I”, the author describes the experience of having her first American jobs. She works for an American family, but she ends up with no pay and being humiliated by her employers. “For a long, long time the thought of ever working in an “America” family made me tremble with fear, like the fear of wild wolves.” The author used a simile to show her painful moment after she find out and she got no pay after all her hard work. The work problem also was described in the other story “New York Was Our City On The Hill”. “For years my father had worked two minimum wage jobs to support two household in two countries. One job was in a textile factory, where my mother also worked, and another in a night car wash.” From these two sentences, we can see what kinds of jobs immigrants can get; we also can see that they work hard for a living. Immigrants start in a new country from zero from the bottom of society. Another theme of these two stories share is struggle. In the story, “New York Was Our City On The Hill” the author’s mother struggles with illness and with making a living. “Doctor, I have children at home and work tomorrow,” my mother said.” The author used dialogue to show his mother’s