Ishmael's Ignorance

I can personally connect with Ishmael’s astonishment in this quote because when I first arrived in America at the age of four on a plane, one look out the window allowed me to experience what a true wonderland look like. Ishmael’s description of the city was exactly what I saw, except I was too young to distinguish the fact that the lights actually derive from buildings. My childish mind actually thought that I arrived at a magical place, which was too good to be true. At that moment, I forgot all the negative things my grandparents taught me about America and just stared out the window with amazement at the colorful lights scattered around me. Even now, I still vividly remember how beautiful New York appeared (only at night of course) in my
eyes that day, and I will forever embrace this memory. Unfortunately, I later learned that my parents lived in the dull part of Brooklyn where skyscrapers are a total rarity, which…equals to no sparkling lights at all.