Summary Of My Dead Brother Comes To America By Alexander Godin

In the short story, “My Dead Brother Comes to America”(1934), Alexander Godin explores not only the hardship associated with being an immigrant entering the United States, but also the relationship among family members undergoing an emotionally and physically demanding transition. Written in the first person point of view and set in New York City, the story details the suffering endured by a Ukrainian boy and his family who travel to New York to meet up with the father, after the boy’s brother was killed violently in World War I; the family had not told the father that one of his four children had died and once he sees that there are only three children with their mother, the family sinks into a state of depression; the father had brought