Beniamino: Left All Alone In America

Life for a child as an illegal immigrant was especially hard. The labor was hard work for a nine year old. He had never seen his hand so black and dirty before in his life, and the pay was very little. Immigration police came, but luckily Carlitos escaped with another worker named Enrique. The two struggled to find employment just to pay for bus fares. After meeting his father for the first time, he found out his father would not contribute torwards Carlitos's mission of reuniting with his mother. Carlitos fleeted to the city his mom was located at with Enrique. On the journey to every payphone in Los Angelos, Carlitos was spotted by the police. But because Enrique distracted the police and got caught, Carlitos got away. He wounded up in place that described everything his mother once shared with him, the exact location his mother would go to call Carlitos every Sunday. Carlitos and Rosario's eyes finally met. They cautiously wait quietly on opposite sides of the street and remain silent. They have finally

Commentary: In order to develop ideas for this paper, I first analyzed the time of the Depression and what Italian Immigrants lives were like typically living in America. Using this background knowledge, I was able to analyze the lifestyles of the working class in each of the stories. Even though the background story of each of the family’s lives differed, they all had a common basis in that they were Italian Immigrant families working a hard lifestyle in order to support the family during economic hardship. I revised this paper by looking to see if my ideas were clearly expressed. I ran into an obstacle of trying to figure out which ideas to express, since the novels

At the age of five she abandon him and his sister in search of the American Dream. Enrique begins his voyage young, motivated and optimistic, when in reality travelling to America was more dangerous than he had ever anticipated. With several failed attempts, finding his mother became a nearly impossible challenge he was ready to accept. With many setbacks like drugs, love, violence, and uncertainty, his travels prolonged. Finally, in the end Enrique and his family made it to America; however their dream turned into a harsh

The upbringing of children between the two cultures contrast one another through the expectations of their youth and personalities created through their various upbringings. This dramatic shift in cultures is visible when Antonio begins public school for the first time. Antonio’s schooling serves as his first institution where he must interact with American children and is exposed to their way of life. An obvious cultural barrier is revolves around language. Antonio enters school without knowing a lick of English and as described by Crossroads, A Journal of English Studies, “…it is a well-known fact that language is one of the most important elements of human identity and culture”. Antonio’s language separates him from the other children and makes him feel alienated. It was hard enough leaving home when his parents were arguing over his future as a man. Not only does his language build an initial barrier between himself and the English-speaking children, but by throwing him into an institution where all of his teachers speak only English, he is forced to adapt to the new culture. Aside from his language barrier, Antonio finds himself being antagonized because of the food that he eats. Food symbolically is supposed secure and fulfilling, but instead Antonio’s Mexican lunch brings upon abuse from the other students. This new terrifying reality which Antonio lives in brings about thoughts of running away and other miserable feelings. However, Antonio is able to conquer his situation and the school goes from being an institution of suffering, to one of

In Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the author, Junot Diaz, depicts the life of a fictitious Oscar De Leon who was an overweight boy of Dominican origin growing up in New Jersey. Leon appears to be quite interested in science fiction and novels that relate to fantasy. The boy also appears to be burdened with a curse that has followed his family for generations. The caretaker, on the other hand, is a play that features three acts in that there are different actors, some of them being Aston and Davies (Diaz 13). Aston has invited Davies who is homeless to his flat after he has rescued him from a bar fight. Davies appears to be critical of Aston’s house and comments on how messy it is. The paper aims to discuss on ways in which the main characters of the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and “The Caretaker” embody the characteristics of the immigrant and the outsider. It also aims to show how the characteristics either contribute to or detract from their respective hero’s journeys.

Tasked with writing an essay on poverty from the standing of an impoverished father with a family in Brazil, Parks instead decides to base his essay on Flavio da Silva- an underprivileged, sickly, twelve-year-old boy. After following Flavio home

Collectively, these literary images go to describe a young ethnic man, probably of Latin descent, who lives with his mother in a poverty stricken area. The careful recitation of instruction given to the younger man seems to demonstrate an intricate knowledge the narrators has accrued from both predecessors and experience. Singularly, this part of the story is very powerful in that it shows a young man having to hide who he is and where he comes from in an effort to seem appealing to women, and speaks volumes about the deception that both genders go through all in name of the chase.

At school, Antonio feels an overwhelming sense of exclusion due to cultural and racial differences. He does not speak English, eats different foods that are unique to his culture, and feels like none of the other kids like him. Antonio describes sadly, “She had sent me to this place where I was an outcast… The pain and sadness seemed to spread to my soul, and I felt for the first time what grown-ups call, la tristesa de la vida. I wanted to run away, to hide, to run and never come back, never see anyone again.”

It is interesting to note that major issues such as identity, and an unfair life have been at the heart of most of his literary works. The narrator tried to unveil an alien environment about which he even questions his belonging. The story mainly stresses the kind of relationship existing between the narrator and his brother, one that has undergone so many shakes and conflicts especially following the death of their parents. The author also highlighted the hostile environment they were part of, and which happens to be no more than the ghettos of Harlem with its devastating impacts on youngsters. That?s why; the narrator sought and even longed for a safe as well as peaceful

By immersing the reader into the slum of Lower East Side, Roth successfully depicts how characters behave as individuals instead of ethnic members. This helps to break stereotypes such as the idea that conflicts existed exclusively between ethnic families and the assimilated American society. What we observe instead, is that conflicts occurred among family members too, alluding to the idea that Americanization from bottom up is a real phenomenon. David’s psycho-narration is momentous; it epitomizes the American psyche in formation. He symbolically killed his father and God became a mere light between the tracks. This kind of behavior demonstrates that Americanization dynamics predated official Americanization programs. The novel is important because it shows that immigrants were also responsible for their own Americanization – a thing as small as children’s play had big assimilative

The book is a compelling read, it is full with humorous little stories and sad. When initiating the book you can see a few glimpse about their major town problems. In order to keep a reader captivated the author has to use various ways of writing styles. The main ones are logos, pathos, and ethos. He uses logos in a way he uses the problems that are going on Tres Camarones that is indeed that are happening in Mexico in different cities. The problems are drug lords just coming in town and claiming it as theirs and mistreat people. Also how all the men just leave to the United States to provide money to their family. He is letting his audience know what is currently happening in Mexico, and why Mexicans usually seek to come to America. He can connect the audience to Mexico’s problems and open their eyes to reality. He uses pathos, and attaches the audience emotionally to the book. He states all the characters problems, and how bad conditions the town us. They don’t have all the luxurious things we have now days and they all have family problems. Ethos, everything in the book comes from the authors personal experience. The book is full with facts

In “On the Subway,” Sharon Olds illustrates the differences of two individuals which contrast in a single characteristic. The narrator’s thoughts give more in depth understanding to how he feels about the boy on the other side of the subway car.

It wasn’t as bad as he expected, but he hated that he never got to spend any time with Lucia. Well he did get to spend time with her every afternoon, but it wasn’t enough! He had already lost his parents and his home, and now he felt like he was losing his sister. She was his only connection to his old life, and he hated being away from her. Anyways, it was awful here. The food was terrible, and some of the other boys kept on trying to mess with him. When he saw Lucia he always said that things were fine, but they weren’t! This place was full of bullies, and he loathed learning English. He just wanted to go home, so he started to sneak out almost every night. He snuck out four times before he made it. On his fifth try he made it into the girl’s camp, and he hid in Lucia’s bed waiting for her to come back. He was so happy to see her, but she didn’t seem nearly as happy to see him, and it broke his heart. They spoke for a short amount of time, and Frankie tried his hardest to convince Lucia to go back to Cuba. Part of him knew that it wasn’t possible, but no one was even trying, and it made him mad and sad at the same time. He just wanted to be back with his parents. Eventually, he fell asleep, but he was rudely awakened when he heard a voice and felt someone grab his

Reinaldo Arenas lived and in an era of great oppression known as the Cuban Revolution, which he helped bring to power in 1959. If understood precisely, the short-story is really complex to percept. The conduct of characters is by all accounts absurdly improper and past any laws of human spirit and sound judgment. Luckily, the suggestion to the Cuban Revolution and the creator 's disposition to it get to be evident from the first paragraphs. Death not only signifies sorrow but can also be freedom. These words were based to the story in relation to the Reinaldo Arenas case in Cuban revolution. However, the story itself shows the love to the country of Cuba. The statement that was written on this paper shows my personal analysis allied to the history and biography of the author. The imagery of the mother reveals the true happiness of the story teller.

After her daily duties working around and cleaning their new home, she awoke Marco from his sleep and took him outside. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, they made their way to the top of their tenement building. Without a word said, they sat on the edge looking out at the colored sky, watching as the sun slowly disappeared from their sight. The people started to enter their homes while the lights of the entire city lit up the soon-to-be night sky. Its colors had changed since then. Aria’s colors had changed as well. In Italy, she could have said that she didn't have a care in the world. She knew basic chores and how to work a farm. She understood how to speak with proper manners and how to cook basic meals. She was ordinary but, extraordinary. Aria never knew that such pain and problems would ever cross her path. That for the first time in her life she would be alone. Aria never thought she would have to leave everything she had known behind just to not only survive, but to thrive in the New World that she had heard stories about. After everything, she could say that she had been through and done all of these things. All with the help of an extraordinary baby boy. She had a feeling though, a hopeful but, bad feeling. She looked into Marco’s eyes and everything became clear. She knew he would have to survive and he would know where he came from and how he got here. He would know her, even if he doesn’t ever remember her. The Italian immigrants that came to America wanted to